“Regularity, immutably regular succession of phenomena puts a term to our efforts, drives us into a regular, narrow, hard-beaten road of everyday life. But even on this road we may not wander from side to side. We must watch our feet, consider each step, since the moment we are off our guard disaster is upon us. Another life is conceivable, however: life in which the word disaster does not exist, where responsibility for one’s actions, even if it be not completely abolished, at least has not such a deadly and accidental weight, and where, on the other hand, there is no “regularity,” but rather an infinite number of possibilities. In such a life the sense of fear — most disgraceful to us — disappears.”
– Lev Shestov, All Things Are Possible
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