'Ikiru' is existential but with a lot of tenderness.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Tenderness is a virtue.
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.
Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism.
There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.
Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works.
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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