But for the sake of a little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born to enjoy
'When one sees a mountain, one wants to climb to the top,'my father wrote.'But once you are there,it is only to discover that the mountain has disappeared,you don't see it anymore.'
At first I mistook him for a coward for taking his own life,but I now sense that he survived as long as he could,struggling against a constant feeling of being unfit for this world.Having prolonged his life,he made the lives of my brother and me possible