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The anarch sticks to facts, not ideas. He suffers not for facts but because of them, and usually through his own fault, as in a traffic accident. Certainly, there are unforeseeable things – maltreatments. However, I believe I have attained a certain degree of self-distancing that allows me to regard this as an accident.

The anarch sticks to facts, not ideas. He suffers not for facts but because of them, and usually through his own fault, as in a traffic accident. Certainly, there are unforeseeable things – maltreatments. However, I believe I have attained a certain degree of self-distancing that allows me to regard this as an accident.

Approximate author period: c. 1946 AD · modern

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Ernst Jünger
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Approximate author period: c. 1946 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1895 to 1998; Wikidata Q76727, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76727 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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