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For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The passage suggests that evading this life through hope for another may be a greater failure than despair. Its tentative phrasing leaves room for reflection. The contrast values engagement with life's difficult grandeur over a desire to replace it with an imagined alternative.
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