A Quote by Richard Rorty
To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world.
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I abjure you,” Alcide said. Colonel Flood winced, and young Sid, Amanda, and Culpepper looked both astonished and impressed, as if this were a ceremony they'd never thought to witness. “I see you no longer. I hunt with you no longer. I share flesh with you no longer.
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