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The Second Coming
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"The Second Coming" Quotes

A man struggles with existential questions and searches for meaning in a post-apocalyptic world.

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Walker Percy

societyidentity

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life.

Walker Percy

purposefulfillment

I am not interested in professional victims. I am interested in the professional victimizers.

Walker Percy

justiceresponsibility

We are not free to love or to hate or to despair or to believe. We are not free to be.

Walker Percy

freedomemotion

I would like to be free to be free.

Walker Percy

freedomdesire

I don't know if it is possible to live the life of a poet. But I am sure it is impossible to live the life of most people.

Walker Percy

creativityindividuality

Something is wrong, more and more wrong.

Walker Percy

societychange

The search for God is a reversal of the normal, the ambitious, the practical.

Walker Percy

spiritualityfaith