consequences, a human strategy, aphorism 473

473

If I should suffer the worst of all possible consequences: There is something which alone belongs to me, and I am willing to consecrate it with the sacrifice of my very existence.  This is the human paradox: one must be willing to sacrifice existence for the value of that existence, even though one will have no means with which to enjoy that value ... but there is something in the struggle.  Let us call it, rank.  We set words to this thing to deepen it and our swarming definitions eat labyrinths out of our wooden breasts and we think we have something in exchange for this now brittle existence.  Then one day we are crushed to powder against our finality.  But there is something in the struggle.

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