"If I did not love what is present, if I could not cling to this enormous, safe parachute, I would long since have fallen into the abyss."

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If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times. Reason is language - Logos; I gnaw on this marrowbone and will gnaw myself to death over it. It is still always dark over these depths for me: I am still always awaiting an apocalyptic angel with a key to this abyss.

— Johann Georg Hamann