"Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss."
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"We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life."
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"Before me is the abyss. How can I leap across it? And if I do not leap, how shall I ever be able to reach God?"
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"When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you."
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"The abyss is full of reality, the abyss experiences itself, the abyss is alive."
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"We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss."
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"The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it."
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"But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abyss of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it."
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"All roads lead to the earth; the abyss leads to God. Jump!"
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"[death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return"
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