Such was the code that the world had accepted and such was the key to the code: that it hooked mans love of existence to a circuit of torture, so that only the man who had nothing to offer would have nothing to fear, so that the virtues which made life possible and the values which gave it meaning became the agents of its destruction, so that ones best became the tool of ones agony, and mans life on earth became impractical.
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