It might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who would know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of spirit should be measured according to how much of the "truth" one could still barely endure--or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified. Beyond Good and Evil
“But where were the Brahmans, where the priests, where the wise men or penitents, who had succeeded in not just knowing this deepest of all knowledge but also to live it?” Siddhartha
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. Never Give In!
"Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes." The Analects of Confucius
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