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fuckyeahexistentialism:

“I was speaking before of Heidegger and I said that mortality according to Heidegger is what makes my time mine, such that it cannot be shared with another—nobody can die in my place—and such that it is totally indeterminate. This will lead Heidegger to say that time must be thought from the…

One moral of such events is obvious: If you would avoid tragedy, avoid love; if you cannot avoid love, avoid integrity; if you cannot avoid integrity, avoid the world; if you cannot avoid the world, destroy it. Our tragedy differs from this classical chain not in its conclusion but in the fact that the conclusion has been reached without passing through love, in the fact that no love seems worth founding one’s life upon, or that society — and therefore I myself — can allow no context in which love, for anything but itself, can be expressed. In such a situation it can look as if that state is the villain and all its men and women merely victims. But that picture is only a further extension of the theatricality that causes it. Our problem is that society can no longer hear its own screams. Our problem, in getting back to the beginnings, will not be to find the thing we have always cared about, but to discover whether we have it in us always to care about something.

—Stanley Cavell, The Avoidance of Love: A Reading of King Lear in Must we mean what we say. (via isleofi)

(Source: femmephilia)