Monachist

At its beginning, the monachist movement was a non-violent protest against the worldliness of a Church in service to the empire.

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The tragedy of Hamlet resides in the revelation that marriage, monachist celibacy, secular libertinism, and imperial joinery — institutions which at first blush seem quite different from each other — are one and the same.

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This monachist regime which excites the soul and over-persuades these people (already lazy as the result of the climate and the lack of necessity) that life is only a transition and that the goods of this world are superfluities, combines with ...

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He lives in monastic loneliness, not that he is a hermit, but he makes himself into a monastery from which, as at Mount Athos, everything that deals with sex is excluded, and like the monachists of the Middle Ages he pays the penalty to desregarded Nature.

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