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When we operate on the basis of the will to control, we are aware of only one kind of “evil”: the failure of existence to conform to the plan we have for it.

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this very act of consenting to its loss of control is itself the critical event of all crisis. To give up ones stature as the director of ones own existance: this is, for us, the ultimate death, the crisis that undermines our being in the most radical way.
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This is why there is something awful about human freedom. This power to make a choice which will never cease to reverberate.
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