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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. |
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The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.- Wendell Berry
The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity.
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.
A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
