Quotes from book
The Last Messiah

Peter Wessel Zapffe
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“Nobody has ever managed to explain what it is they are longing after in religion, but it is quite clear what they are trying to escape from – this earthly vale of tears, one’s untenable existential situation.”

Peter Wessel Zapffe book The Last Messiah

The Last Messiah (1933)
Source: trans. Peter Reed & David Rothenberg https://ia803202.us.archive.org/15/items/20200821_20200821_1659/OAP_Zapffe_Last_Messiah.pdf, page 8

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