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Xzavier 2022-04-21 09:02:17
Numbness is life or alcohol
The students who didn't listen to the teaching, the unfamiliar children, the indifferent wife, the boring life day after day gradually made Martin numb, and he hoped to change but couldn't start. A friend's birthday party brought up an interesting theory, Finn Scadruder, that humans are born with a...
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Elmer 2021-12-16 08:01:02
Drunken life
My dad can almost be regarded as a perfect husband and father. The only thing my mom quarrels with is drinking. Now when I look at it, my dad didn't drink much at the time. But every time they were drunk, they would be like two people, yelling and telling their injustices.
When I was young, I was...
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Martin: Students: Hitler? Martin: Focus! It's funny, but there's a point to this, which is important and which I hope you'll understand someday: the world is never as you expect.
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Sebastian: The conception of anxiety was it? Well, Kierkegaard's concept of anxiety illustrates how a human being deals with the notion of failing.
Peter: And even more importantly?
Sebastian: With having failed, you must accept yourself as fallible in order to love others and life.
Peter: Sebastian, can you give us an example?
Sebastian: Yes, I myself have failed.
