My Sweet Alpha
Perhaps Nature, in the mysterious depths of the jungle, offers
its most surprising spectacle—surprising because of its equivocal aspect—the
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melancholic orangutan. Animals are normally happy. We have been endowed
with an opposite nature. Always melancholic, frantic, manic, men are ill
nurtured by all those illnesses Hippocrates called divine. And the reason for this
is that human tasks are unrealizable. The destiny of Man—his privilege and
honor—is never to achieve what he proposes, and to remain merely an intention,
a living utopia. He is always marching toward failure, and even before entering
the fray he already carries a wound in his temple.
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