"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
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"The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking."
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"But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history."
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"Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs."
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"Language is the house of the truth of Being."
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"To dwell is to garden."
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