Il y a (n.) as the nothingness of being wounds less than disappearance does.
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The Il y a (n.) is the murmur that rushes into every void — as mourners' murmuring fills the place a dead man has left empty.
Il y a (n.) is the state beneath being and nothingness alike, which grips us so completely that we cannot take death lightly.
Il y a (n.) or the there is alone is impersonal in the radical sense — not Spinoza's God or inert matter, which are already existents, already nouns.
Il y a (n.) is a presence of absence, beyond contradiction: it embraces its own negation, which is why being has no outlets.
The Il y a (n.) is the rumbling that fills each silence in which the subject tries to detach itself from essence, the nonsense in which essence, and even justice, turns.
Il y a (n.) names the nocturnal dimension of the future into which the element extends — the very strangeness of the earth that enjoyment runs into.
Il y a (n.) has a quasi-invisibility: it is effaced in the very thing of which one says 'there is this or that'.