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« You will depend less on the next day when you get your hands on today. (Seneca) »
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Alexandre Jollien
Self-building: A use of philosophy |
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Alexandre Jollien
Self-building: A use of philosophy
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« Followed by many readings, an encounter taught me the unsuspected value of a new fight. (...) For the first time I realized that the mind (or soul, as one would like) deserves some attention. As a teenager, I guessed with the old man the charms of philosophy (...). From then on, two men often watched by the light of a studious lamp. The discussions were rolling, the arguments were sharpening. I was arming myself for life. The worn eyes opened those of the young man, the ears that the outrage of time had blocked listened without complacency to the confused rumors of a heart swollen with incomprehension. »
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Alexandre Jollien
The Man's Job |
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Alexandre Jollien
The Man's Job
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« The fear of losing, the fear of hurting, the fear of being repelled by the friend, or rather by the one on whom I depend, is indeed a dangerous poison. He uses the other, reduces it to the rank of means to fill a void, a way to fill my loneliness. One clings, crawls towards the other to escape oneself. »
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Alexandre Jollien
Praise for weakness |
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Alexandre Jollien
Praise for weakness
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