“ You know, to learn how to live—this is always narcissistic. You want to live as long as you can, to save yourself, to persevere, and to cultivate all these things that, infinitely larger and more powerful than you, are nonetheless part of this “I,” from which they overflow on all sides. To ask me to renounce what has shaped me, what I have loved so much, is to ask me to die.

Jacques Derrida

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