<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=509070" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Answer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then what is the answer?- Not to be deluded by dreams. <br>To know that great civilizations have broken down into violence, <br> and their tyrants come, many times before. <br>When open violence appears, to avoid it with honor or choose <br> the least ugly faction; these evils are essential. <br>To keep one's own integrity, be merciful and uncorrupted <br> and not wish for evil; and not be duped <br>By dreams of universal justice or happiness. These dreams will <br> not be fulfilled. <br>To know this, and know that however ugly the parts appear <br> the whole remains beautiful. A severed hand <br>Is an ugly thing and man dissevered from the earth and stars <br> and his history... for contemplation or in fact... <br>Often appears atrociously ugly. Integrity is wholeness, <br> the greatest beauty is <br>Organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty <br> of the universe. Love that, not man <br>Apart from that, or else you will share man's pitiful confusions, <br> or drown in despair when his days darken.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robinson+Jeffers">Robinson Jeffers</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=509070" data-title="The Answer de Robinson Jeffers" data-description="Then what is the answer?- Not to be deluded by dreams. To know that great civilizations have broken down into violence, and their tyrants come, many times before. When open violence appears, to avoid it with honor or choose the least ugly fa..."></div> </div> </div>

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