![Human existence is a brutal experience to me... it's a brutal, meaningless experience - an agonizing, meaningless experience with some oases, delight, some charm and peace, but these are just small oases. Overall, it is a brutal, terrible experience, and so it [salvation] is what can you do to alleviate the agony of the human condition, the human predicament? That is what interests me the most.](/assets/img/quote-photos/human-existence-is-a-brutal-experience-to-me-its-a-brutal-meaningless-experi.jpg)
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