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In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.

The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works.

That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.

Man lives in a world of meaning.

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.