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“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
― Mark Twain

“If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself. ”
― Martin Heidegger

“Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one. ”
― Martin Heidegger

“Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?”
― Martin Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics

“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.”
― Martin Heidegger

“To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy.”
― Martin Heidegger

“Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.”
― Martin Heidegger