“This is what frightens us,” Ellis said. “You are too absolute.” “I have heard that before. I have an old friend, to whom I told the truth about myself when we were students. For years he went on arguing against me in terms of utility: how would self-candor tend to better results for my happiness, my family’s, the world’s? I listened to him too long, balancing the one thing against all the others. Now I understand that life is absolute. It is the only interest. The friend I speak of
