'Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.'

'Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.'

'Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.'

'Normality is death.'

I cannot imagine a man without thought; he would be a stone or an animal. (339)

How does thought take shape?

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