Indeed, my indulgent friends, I will tell you — here, in this late preface, which might easily have become an obituary or a funeral oration — what I sought in the depths below: for I have come back, and — I have escaped. Think not that I will urge you to run the same perilous risk! or that I will urge you on even to the same solitude! For whoever proceeds on his own path meets nobody: this is the feature of one’s “own path.” No one comes to help him in his task: he must face everything quite alone — danger, bad luck, wickedness, foul weather. He goes his own way; and, as is only right, meets
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