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I think we ought to only read the kind of books that wound and stab us.  If the book we are reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?  So that it will make us happy, as you write?…We would be happy precisely if we had [...]

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We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.  We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life–daily [...]

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Equality

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