“Our place is somewhere between being and nonbeing — between two fictions.”
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
“To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.”
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Ichiro Suzuki (1973) Japanese baseball player
Sasha Issenberg. <u>"If She's an Ugly Bowler, You Are Going To Be Disappointed"</u> http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2007/08/ifshes_an_ugly_bowler_you_are_going_to_be_disappointed.html. Slate. Retrieved on 2016-11-03.
Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), An Absurd Reasoning
Context: What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity. <!-- 153
Martin Luther King, Jr. book Strength to Love
Strength to Love, p. 25
1960s, Strength to Love (1963)
Context: The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige and even his life for the welfare of others.
