| To be a good lenient being is to be enduring a kind of openness to the far-out, an cleverness to guardianship uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in unequivocally exceptionally circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something very weighty thither the prerequisite of the righteous autobiography: that it is based on a trust in the up in the air and on a willingness to be exposed; it's based on being more like a weed than like a treasure, something rather fragile, but whose mere special beauty is inseparable from that fragility.
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