1. KIerkegard
... this experience is possible, it is tantamount to experiencing it forever. Despair becomes an eternal sickness that the self loses its capability of dying in the same sense that the body dies of sickness. An impossibility, wherein what happens is that the dying of despair transforms itself constantly into living thing. It is precisely self-consuming, that you cannot do anything else but ... the calculations of his understanding . Abraham befalls in this sense to be overridden by madness caused by the great love to his son that it becomes clearer his suffering becomes a hatred for oneself...
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