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While questions of accuracy have been raised about some survivor accounts, there are existential truths that only survivors can provide.
This nimble-footed doubleness may indeed hold profound existential truths; it also provides an all-purpose evasion of analysis.
Peeling paint, family photographs thick with dust and decomposing on a mantel, pockmarked plaster walls: these represent existential truths, memento mori.
For many of my clients, these existential truths about life — and death — are what send them spinning out into panic and anxiety.
The film itself felt like a kind of an urban slacker documentary version of "Waiting for Godot" and a few of the parking attendants' existential truths have stayed with me, such as the sign one of them hand-wrote that said, "Come as you are, leave as you always wanted to be".
If this strikes you as absurd, I can only reply that it's no more absurd than what most insomniacs do instead: lie awake in bed for hours every night, getting more wakeful the harder they try to drop off, while ruminating on horrifying existential truths.
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The legends they left have the ring of deep existential truth about them.
A myth, he writes, is 'a narrative that carries existential truth'.
The eminent Protestant theologian Paul Tillich (1886 1965), who admired Baeck, asserted that "Baeck should have spoken out…the full existential truth must always be made available".
But part of that play is an acknowledgement of an existential truth: that there's no such thing as exact repetition.
But Saint Laurent couldn't know about, and therefore take heart from, Marcel's moment of existential truth because, he told Benaïm, he's never finished reading "In Search of Lost Time".
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