For a long time, I took my pen for a sword; I now know we’re powerless. No matter. I write and will keep writing books; they’re needed; all the same, they do serve some purpose. Culture doesn’t save anything or anyone, it doesn’t justify. But it’s a product of man: he projects himself into it, he recognizes himself in it; that critical mirror alone offers him his image.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Discussing the common
If your goal is to learn and to understand the most relevant things, you can't shy away from what is most frequently said, diminishing and dismissing it as "trite" or "a truism" or "cliche." The common is interesting—not
uninteresting—
because it is common.
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