Man literally split two: awareness splendid uniqueness sticks nature a — Ernest Becker, Denial Death

Ernest Becker The Denial of Death

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Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever.

Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

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