1. KIerkegard
It is precisely self-consuming, that you cannot do anything else but to despair itself go deeper and deeper into impotent self-consumation. ... And by the self, the despairer would have no place to go except to despair itself, since to have a self, to be a self, is the greatest concession made to man, but at the same time eternity's to be relinquished upon him. ... This is expressed in the book Purity of the Heart, saying the readiness of the person to "will the good in truth and the disposition and to let go of double mindedness and the consolations of temporality" . ...
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