How could you seriously live if you had not seriously considered dying? The hysterical are sure to be provoked by such an opening, but should not all openings be provocative? That is, having the capacity of evoking that which it is intending to convey? Moving from the sequence of questions to answers, I return to the question once more: how could you seriously live if you had not seriously considered dying? The emergence of agency corresponds with the interruption of inertia. I only become something by puncturing the movement already moving through me, in order to choose my own way. Taken to an extreme, I am therefore only capable of a life if I fully incarnate in me the cognizance of its inverse, that of being dead; not dissimilar to the frenzied affection of being able to love more the receptor of our desire by imagining at the moment of the amorous embrace its very absence, the living are inflamed towards life by dwelling in its always imminent death, like that of the wise tribes who congeal cries for those gone with celebration: our greatest friends are those that have just gone forever, for they grant us the immanent truth always awaited—sharing the gift that belongs to the absolutely solitary: we will all be leaving this place forever, at a time that no one can know: so seize now the means of living.
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