“It’s not what you may tell others, I accept your word on that. What matters is what you will tell yourself, and what I will tell myself. In all that you have told me of your motives, there was, despite your continuing claims of service and the alleviation of distress, nothing really of me in it. That is how it should be. You will use me in your self-project: that, too, is expected—it is the way of nature. But do you not see, I will be used up by you!
