"We know very well why we exist and where we came from; we know why we have eyes and why there is no instruction manual. The answers are, respectively, because our parents copulated and nine months later we were expelled from our mother's womb, because light is a great source of information about the world, and, finally, because life is not a household appliance. This kind of answer is so obvious and undeniable that the only way to ignore it is to bury our heads in the sand and meditate at length, hoping that the being will secretly whisper in our ears how much it loves us. We think that all grand questions demand grand answers, but this is a demand of our vanity, not of understanding. We know almost everything that, in philosophy, we pretend to ignore under the guise of profundity. If we don't admit to having the answers and keep hoping for something different, it is because we have not yet completely abandoned the fantasy of a magical truth arriving on a winged horse and ridding us of this miserable world."
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André Cancian, O Vazio da Máquina 2: Niilismo e os demais abismos (2015),
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