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"Behind man lies the abyss, nothingness; the Outsider knows this; it is his business to sink claws of iron into life to grasp it tighter than the indifferent bourgeois, to build, to Will, in spite of the abyss."
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"A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick."
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