4 Quotes by Peter Wessel Zapffe about pessimism
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The modern barbarity of ‘saving’ the suicidal is based on a hairraising misapprehension of the nature of existence.
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– The life of the worlds is a roaring river, but Earth’s is a pond and a backwater.– The sign of doom is written on your brows – how long will ye kick against the pin-pricks?– But there is one conquest and one crown, one redemption and one solution.– Know yourselves – be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye.
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Know yourselves- be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye.
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The human yearning is not merely marked by a ‘striving toward’, but equally by an ‘escape from.
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