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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?”
― Cornelia Funke

tags: books, character, cornelia-funke, existentialism, words, writers, writing

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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.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

tags: existentialism

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“I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: existentialism

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“Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.”
― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

tags: existentialism, meaning

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“Youth's longing misconceived inconsistency.
Those whom I deemed
Changed to my kin, the friends of whom I dreamed,
Have aged and lost our old affinity:
One has to change to stay akin to me.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

tags: existentialism, from-high-mountains-aftersong, philosophy

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