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That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationship between objects.
War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our
But he was a proof that there is a God that we can never know. He was the final right to deny. To be free to choose. He, or what manifested itself through him, even included the insane Wimmel, the despicable German and Austrian troops. He was every freedom, from the very worst to the very best. The freedom to desert on the battlefield of Neuve Chapelle. The freedom to confront a primitive God at Seidevarre. The freedom to disembowel peasant girls and castrate with wire-cutters. He was something that passed beyond morality but sprang out of the very essence of things – that comprehended all,
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That experience made me fully realize what humour is. It is a manifestation of freedom.
‘My daughters were nothing but a personification of your own selfishness.’
But in the godgame we start from the premise that in reality all is fiction, yet no single fiction is necessary.’
Thou shalt not inflict unnecessary pain.
