“What this world needs is truth, not consolation. It must find itself in its ordeal and by way of its restlessness, not in the solace of edifying discourses that do nothing but pile on more testimony to its misery.”
Jean-Luc Nancy
Hegel: The Restlessness Of The Negative
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