a positive stimulus toward this life ..., a human strategy, aphorism 499

499 

I must admit it reluctantly, the end is perhaps necessary, but not to its own credit, and certainly not for anything which could come “after,” but necessary as a point of reflection, as a positive stimulus toward this life. The significance of a sentence requires a stop, which serves as a point of return — it limits and emphasizes all that has preceded. My whole life has both a beginning and a continuing, a tendency, but requires a stop ... a point from which I might propose a “forward” and a “backward,” a point demanding a summation ... and an accounting.

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