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“«Não aceitamos a filosofia existencialista só porque afirmamos que o mundo é absurdo. Se assim fosse, 80% dos passageiros do metro, a acreditar nas conversas que ouço, seriam existencialistas. O existencialismo é uma visão completa, uma visão do mundo que pressupõe uma metafísica e uma moral. Se bem que me aperceba da importância histórica do movimento, não tenho suficiente confiança na razão para aderir a um sistema. Isto é tão verdade que o manifesto de Sartre, publicado no primeiro número dos Temps Modernes, me parece inaceitável.» (Carta à revista "Le Nef", 1/1946)”

“PRAYER FOR A RECOVERING CODEPENDENT What is missing from your constitution right now, my darling, is not empathy, but courage. It takes fortitude not to leap into somebody else’s suffering with them and call that love. It takes faith to know that you are not the appointed arbiter of anyone else’s journey. And it takes humility to admit that you cannot control anyone— that you might not even understand what you’re looking at. What you call a “crisis” might be someone else’s awakening, ten thousand lifetimes in the making. (The awakening, my love, might even be your own.) And what you call “care” might be dangerous disruption of an ecosystem of unimaginable delicacy. How hard that person’s soul might have fought its way through the cosmos for millions of ages to finally arrive here—on the final precipice of egoic collapse. How close they might be, at last, to freedom. All they have to do now is shatter. Maybe stand back. Maybe let it happen.”