Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
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Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
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Many artists that I met don't know what existentialism is. But it is these things that contribute to the most deep-inside spirit of my works.
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Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you
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Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action.(There is no reality except in action.)
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The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.
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Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.
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Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos.
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[in the true mad north] of introspection, where 'falcons of the inner eye'dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life's memory of existence.
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There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.
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Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?
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There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
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A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him, and out of those fragments our heart constructs an entire person. What we each create, since whatever is missing is filled by our imagination, is the person we wish him to be. The less we know him, of course, the more we love him. And that's why we always remember that first rapturous night when he was a stranger, and why this rapture returns only when he's dead.
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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
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All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me..
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The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days.. And yet we were profoundly separated from her.
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Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.
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The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.
Our greatest challenge today.. Is to couple conviction with doubt. By conviction, I mean some pragmatically developed faith, trust, or centeredness; and by doubt I mean openness to the ongoing changeability, mystery, and fallibility of the conviction.
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When reason has followed its road to the end, the point of crisis is reached and man is brought to the great question mark over his own existence.
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A Christian is supposed to be in the world, and yet not of the world--a Both/And as perplexing and demanding as the Either/Or that precedes the life of faith. I'm at once a pure, beautiful, genderless soul, but at the same time a gendered body full of flaws, sins, and wanting. This contradiction, the Both/And, is the Cross.
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Man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surrender his humanity
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