"After all, the nation is not just an entity. It's a story. It's a story of what's salient, what brought us together, what we are willing to live and die for."

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In the work of art the truth of an entity has set itself to work. ‘To set’ means here: to bring to a stand. Some particular entity, a pair of peasant shoes, comes in the work to stand in the light of its being. The being of the being comes into the steadiness of its shining. The nature of art would then be this: the truth of being setting itself to work.

— Martin Heidegger