If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe…

Flannery O'Connor
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If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now. ✨ This Lonesome Place by Hilton Als, www.newyorker.com. January 29, 2001.
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