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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.

Martin Heidegger

The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Forever Greatness
A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Rise Silence Word
The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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God Past Religion
On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Failure Fall
Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
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Destiny God Important
Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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Mental Source
Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Book Myself Reading Yourself
Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Attraction Himself
The divinity of the gods must first eventuate before a god appears and before the naming word, which names “the gods”, can be heard.
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Divine God Spiritual
Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Moments Philosophy
As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Born Death Enough Old
All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Poem Poet Writing
We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Philosophy Thinking
How should the new day arrive, if the night is withheld from it and everything is suppressed into the twilight of decisionlessness?
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Decision Night Philosophy
Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Art Man Poet
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.

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