"For physics, the meaning of the world lies in its end. The gaze that relies on physics sees things from the point of view of their end. This reverses the fundamental attitude of the individual. In the light of physics, it is not the origin but the end that is the goal. To see everything in the light of this, with life already destroyed, everything in eternal stillness, is to see it as it will one day appear. But it already appears today to those who can discern its morphological contemporaneity with us. It is a matter of already seeing the world in the light of this final catastrophe and referring to it as contemporaries from now on."
January 1, 1970
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