“Each life experience, each insight into the world takes place and is substantiated by the body. Love, pain, hunger, disgust cannot be conceived. Rather, they penetrate us with a force that is inconceivable. The capacity to sympathize or empathize, to share in somebody else’s pain, is contingent upon one’s own suffering. Yet the consciousness of corporeality also harbours the fact of death, which is beyond experience and yet inscribed upon our lives from the very beginning.”
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