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DetlefK

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1. The true meaning of "Horror is other people." is different from what you think.

Reply to Tobin S. (Original post)

Thu Apr 19, 2018, 03:34 AM

Apr 2018

The original meaning of this sentence is that meeting other people is horror because we are forced to see us through their eyes. Meeting other people forces us to give up the image we have made of ourselves for ourselves.

Ignorance is a way of preemptively denouncing criticism.

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