“I can choose. I have to choose.”

— Ivan Illich

We the People interview (1996)
Context: I can choose. I have to choose. I have to make my mind up whom I will take into my arms, to whom I will lose myself, whom I will treat as that vis-a-vis, that face into which I look, which I lovingly touch with my fingering gaze, from whom I accept being who I am as a gift.

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austrian philosopher and theologist 1926–2002

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