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We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost.

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.

As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an abyss where life is either extinguished, or exhibits but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence.

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.

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.

I think there comes a time in every persons life where they just need to go to the darkest, most dismal place.