| | To be a noble benign being is to have a make of openness to the world, an ability to group undeterminable things beyond your own pilot, that can take you to be shattered in unequivocally extreme circumstances on which you were not to blame. That says something uncommonly important thither the prerequisite of the principled life: that it is based on a conviction in the up in the air and on a willingness to be exposed; it's based on being more like a plant than like a sparkler, something rather fragile, but whose mere precise attractiveness is inseparable from that fragility.
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