5 definitions
Death (n.) is the one experience a collectivity cannot turn into its work or its property: honor its heroes as it will, past a certain point death bares a meaninglessness nothing can absorb.
The Experience of freedom (n.) is the knowledge that in every thought there is another thought, no longer thought by thought, which thinks it — gives it lavishly, and weighs it.
Freedom (n.) is not a property the human being owns but an event it comes to: we dispose of it only insofar as it has already disposed of us.
Love (n.) comes from outside — not from the other person but from the otherness of the other — and it cannot be owned: it comes and goes, a trembling on the edge of being.
Weight (n.) is what thinking is about: penser is peser — to think is to weigh, and every thought is weighed by another thought it does not think.