Abandonment is the defining quality of man. Man is never alone - he's always abandoned.
Abandonment is the state of man in a world where God does not exist, giving him no excuses and condemning him to make of himself and his morals what he wants in this world with no rules.
Absence is a genuine absence and not merely an absence of what is present even if what is present is truly absent... it is rather the absence of both absence and presence.
Disappearance is, in absolute terms, as impossible as something surging out of nothing. Nothing ever disappears without a trace, in the sense that it gives rise to absolutely nothing existing in later times.
Distance is nothing to the lover — Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
Distance is, in modernity, short in terms of length and yet ever remote to us. What is vastly far away in terms of length, can be near to us. Short distance is not already nearness. Great distance is not yet remoteness.
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