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We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come. …There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison

The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life’s most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become.

Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into the heights, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant.