This tendency of ours is something that merits attention. We should ask ourselves, why is it that most of us have a certain longing for security, for some guarantee as to the outcome of the events in which we are involved? What is it in our nature that makes us incapable of going to the point that is the most interesting and significant one? Maybe it is, in part, that we simply do not recognize that life in its fullness is life at that point; departure from that point toward either of the other conditions is a diminution. The strange thing is that we fully recognize the quality of the heroic;
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