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“Man beholds the earth, and it is breathing like a great lung; whenever it exhales, delightful life swarms from all its pores and reaches out toward the sun, but when it inhales, a moan of rupture passes through the multitude, and corpses whip the ground like bouts of hail.”

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Peter Wessel Zapffe
Peter Wessel Zapffe

Peter Wessel Zapffe was a Norwegian existentialist philosopher known for his profound questioning of the meaning of life. His most famous work, 'The Shout of Eros', critically examines traditional philosophy and proposes his own philosophy of life. more

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