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| To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world... | |
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| ...an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control... | |
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| ...that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. | |
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| That says something very important about the condition of the ethical life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed; | |
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| it’s based on being more like a plant than like a jewel; | |
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| ...something rather fragile, but whose very particular beauty is inseparable from that fragility. | |
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