| | To be a upright benign being is to from a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust undeterminable things beyond your own manage, that can take you to be shattered in unequivocally exceptionally circumstances on which you were not to blame. That says something remarkably impressive thither the condition of the honest life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed; it's based on being more like a shop than like a prize, something rather fragile, but whose very particular attractiveness is inseparable from that fragility.
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