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Life is passed off as a gift offered, but it is evident that each one would have politely refused it, if they could have seen and examined it before; in this sense, it is the case of Lessing's son, whose understanding he admired, who adamantly refused to enter the world and had to be violently brought to it by forceps, but as soon as he was in the world, he hurried out of it. On the other hand, it is often said that life should be, through and through, just a lesson; to which, however, anyone could thus retort: "Precisely for this reason I would have wanted to be left in the peace of self-sufficient nothingness, where I would not have needed lessons or anything else." If it were added that the human being must one day account for every hour of his life; then he would rather have the right first to demand an answer as to why he was taken out of that peace and calm in which he was, to be placed in such an unfortunate, obscure, distressing, and painful situation. — This is where fundamental false views lead. Far from bearing the character of a GIFT offered, human existence bears in everything the character of a DEBT contracted. His bill to pay appears in the figure of urgent needs, torturous desires and endless shortages posed by this existence. As a rule, the whole time of life is employed in the payment of this debt: and even then we only pay the interest. The payment of capital takes place on death. "And when was this debt contracted?" — In procreation.

>Life is passed off as a gift offered, but it is evident that each one would have politely refused it, if they could have seen and examined it before; in this sense, it is the case of Lessing's son, whose understanding he admired, who adamantly refused to enter the world and had to be violently brought to it by forceps, but as soon as he was in the world, he hurried out of it.
>On the other hand, it is often said that life should be, through and through, just a lesson; to which, however, anyone could thus retort: "Precisely for this reason I would have wanted to be left in the peace of self-sufficient nothingness, where I would not have needed lessons or anything else."
>If it were added that the human being must one day account for every hour of his life; then he would rather have the right first to demand an answer as to why he was taken from that peace and calm in which he was, to be placed in such an unfortunate, obscure, distressing, and painful situation. — This is where fundamental false views lead.
>Far from bearing the character of a GIFT offered, human existence bears in everything the character of a DEBT contracted. His bill to pay appears in the figure of urgent needs, torturous desires and endless shortages posed by this existence. As a rule, the whole time of life is employed in the payment of this debt: and even then we only pay the interest. The payment of capital takes place on death. "And when was this debt contracted?" — In procreation. distressing and painful. — This is where fundamental false views lead. Far from bearing the character of a GIFT offered, human existence bears in everything the character of a DEBT contracted.
>His bill to pay appears in the figure of urgent needs, torturous desires and endless shortages posed by this existence. As a rule, the whole time of life is employed in the payment of this debt: and even then we only pay the interest. The payment of capital takes place on death. "And when was this debt contracted?" — In procreation. distressing and painful. — This is where fundamental false views lead. >Far from bearing the character of a GIFT offered, human existence bears in everything the character of a DEBT contracted. His bill to pay appears in the figure of urgent needs, torturous desires and endless shortages posed by this existence. As a rule, the whole time of life is employed in the payment of this debt: and even then we only pay the interest. The payment of capital takes place on death. "And when was this debt contracted?" — In procreation.