1:43:00
They can't bear
to look at their own life
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and see it all,
without shadows or backgrounds.
1:43:08
By existing,
they defy the laws of nature,
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not only because
their inability to adapt
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serves no genetic purpose,
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but also because it presupposes
a lucidity
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which clearly transcends
1:43:23
the perceptual norms
of everyday life.
1:43:30
Interesting.
But try to be more direct.
1:43:34
Aren't you being a little abstract?
1:43:41
Perhaps.
1:43:46
But I can't see, tangibly,
1:43:48
how people can live.
1:43:52
They ought to be miserable,
1:43:56
you understand?
1:43:58
The world is so simple.
1:44:01
There's a system based
on domination,
1:44:05
money, fear...
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- a masculine system -
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and a feminine system
1:44:13
based on seduction and sex.
1:44:15
That's all.
1:44:19
As a late 19th-century realist,
1:44:23
Maupassant believed that.
1:44:27
It drove him raving mad.
1:44:31
You mix things up.
1:44:32
Maupassant's madness
was caused by syphilis.
1:44:38
Everyone accepts your two systems.
1:44:40
No.
1:44:42
He saw it too clearly.
Matter, nothingness, death.
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He saw nothing else.
1:44:58
He made a total separation