"Most people fall into what [Marcel] calls 'crispation': a tensed and crusted shape in life—'as though each one of us secreted a kind of shell which gradually hardened and imprisoned him'."
Gabriel Marcel as quoted by Sarah Bakewell in At The Existentialist Cafe
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Don’t Get Crispy
Spinoza’s Religion
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Don’t Get Crispy
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