Our greatest sufferings do not lie in the present, as intuitive representations or immediate feeling, but rather in reason, as abstract concepts, tormenting thoughts.
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Don’t you enjoy being alive? Don’t you like feeling: This is me, this is my hand, this is my leg, I’m real, I’m solid, I’m alive! Don’t you like this?
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
Good she had been. Not nice, not merely molto simpatico – how charmingly and effectively these foreign tags assist one in calling a spade by some other name! – but good. You felt the active radiance of her goodness when you were near her… And that feeling, was that less real and valid than two plus two?
The anti-human, the merely animal, consists in staying within the sphere of feeling, and being able to communicate only at that level.
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