Tomorrow when the prison clock strikes nine, I will have entered into deaths realm; it is natural that I think now of my forebears, since I am so close to their shadow, since, after a fashion, I am already my ancestors. … In the first volume of Parerga und Paralipomena I read again that everything which can happen to a man, from the instant of his birth until his death, has been preordained by him. Thus, every negligence is deliberate, every chance encounter an appointment, every humiliation a penitence, every failure a mysterious victory, every death a suicide. There is no more skillful consolation than the idea that we have chosen our own misfortunes; this individual teleology reveals a secret order and prodigiously confounds us with divinity Jorge Luis Borges, Deutsches Requiem
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