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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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A philosophy has a practical power: it contributes to the changing of the world.
~ Umberto Eco
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Our waking life’s desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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A picture speaks 1000 words
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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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