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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: later on be taken from us by force."
Tydomin watched him attentively. "Then your feeling is that your
life is worthless, and you make a present of it to the first one who
asks?"
"No, it goes beyond that. I feel that the only thing worth living for
is to be so magnanimous that fate itself will be astonished at us.
Understand me. It isn't cynicism, or bitterness, or despair, but
heroism.... It's hard to explain."
"Now you shall hear what sacrifice I offer you, Maskull. It's a
heavy one, but that's what you seem to wish."
"That is so. In my present mood it can't be too heavy."
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