exercise our minds in order to keep certainty from turning us into idiots, that we fight to open every closed door we find in front of us. “I cannot live without certainty,” says the person who is in a hurry to settle down, to find firm ground on which to stand, to eat without seeing the innumerable hungry, gaping mouths behind the food he devours. “I do not wish to live without uncertainty, nor can I,” cry others who do not eat with an easy conscience, do not sleep without nightmares, do not say, This world has no defects, may it remain the same forevermore! These others, God bless them, are
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