“We others are the exception and the danger - we stand eternally in need of defense! Now there is something to be said for the exception, provided it never wants to become the rule.” (GS §76) Of all the truths I learned from friend N., this was by far the most difficult to understand. For so many years I had lived under the motto of Emerson who wrote “To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, - that is genius.”
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