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Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.

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On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.

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The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character.

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If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal.

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Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.

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Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other.

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It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this agreement remains beyond our reach.

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Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.

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Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.

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Testimony gives something to be interpreted.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: February 27th, 1913

Died: May 20th, 2005

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