You'd let the whole world perish rather than soil that immaculate self of yours with a single spot of which you'd have to be ashamed.
You'd let the whole world perish rather than soil that immaculate self of yours with a single spot of which you'd have to be ashamed.
Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who cheats and lies, but preserves a respectable front. He knows himself to be dishonest, but others think he's honest and he derives his self-respect from that, second-hand. The man who takes credit for an achievement which is not his own. He knows himself to be mediocre, but he's great in the eyes of others.
Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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