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What gives life its value you can find — and lose. But never possess. This holds good above all for "the Truth about Life."

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You are not the oil, you are not the air — merely the point of combustion, the flash-point where the light is born. You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency — your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end and remain purely as a means.

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Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible — not to have run away.

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