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Wachten op geluk: Een filosofie van het verlangen

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“Leie: Nu en dan steekt het kleine verlangen de kop weer op en daarmee de hoop, dan gaat Dirk achter me liggen en duwt zijn knieën in mijn knieholten en rust ik in zijn armen als een komma in plaats van een punt tot ik het niet meer verdraag, tot ik hem niet meer verdraag en mezelf niet, tot de gevechten weer beginnen en alles moet sneuvelen. Als het heel moeilijk wordt denk ik aan het kind dat zomaar gekomen is, dat er nog iets voor me in het verschiet ligt en dat ik moet doorgaan en niet versagen.”

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“In the years of its rise the movement little by little brought the community's attitude toward the teacher around from respect and envy to resentment, from trust and fear to suspicion. The development seems to have been inherent; it needed no planning and had none. As the Nazi emphasis on nonintellectual virtues (patriotism, loyalty, duty, purity, labor, simplicity, "blood," "folkishness") seeped through Germany, elevating the self-esteem of the "little man," the academic profession was pushed from the very center to the very periphery of society. Germany was preparing to cut its own head off. By 1933 at least five of my ten friends (and I think six or seven) looked upon "intellectuals" as unreliable and, among those unreliables, upon the academics as the most insidiously situated.”

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“National Socialism was a revulsion by my friends against parliamentary politics, parliamentary debate, parliamentary government—against all the higgling and the haggling of the parties and the splinter parties, their coalitions, their confusions, and their conniving. It was the final fruit of the common man's repudiation of "the rascals". Its motif was, "Throw them all out.”

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