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Christian kingdoms hate one another
and are divided on how best to show their love for Jesus Christ. How mad, you think, to hate over how best to love. But
Perhaps men could accustom themselves to living with a small amount of doubt. I think doubt a necessary ingredient to live.”
When men win prizes from life by their cleverness, they begin to believe that their cleverness is infinitely protective,
“We must awaken desire in our man to do whatever task must be
achieved, if the man will not do it by nature. Only failing that must we remind him of fear.”
To survive required forgetting, submission, the murder of pointless hope.
History is written by the future, and therefore distorted at its start.