To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath these comforting, operational conveniences. What remains when the conscious and functioning self has been erased is mankind's fundamental condition _ irrational, violent, guilt-wracked, despairing, and mad.
If you try to hold people to your standard of conduct you will go mad with disappointment and grief.
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If you try to hold people to your standard of conduct you will go mad with disappointment and grief.
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