The Remnant Say...

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To lose.
To suffer.
To learn.
These are the articles of faith.

 

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The more you are hailed the victor — that much more humiliating will be your defeat.
From this you learn.

 

The more you are overborne by suffering — that much more suffering will pour down upon you.
From this you learn.

 

The more extensive your experience, the greater your mastery, the subtler your thinking, the more abundant your knowledge — that much the more naive, graceless, stupid, and ignorant you will be shown to be.
From this you learn.

 

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For victory means everything until it is achieved: the prize bestowed is no longer prized.
Winning means nothing:
A new challenge, a new test, must forever be proposed.
This is vanity.

 

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The loser suffers,
And gains through this suffering knowledge of the self, of the adversary, and of the contest.

It is easy to see what was done wrong;
It is impossible to be certain of what was done right.

 

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To suffer is to be sure
Pain is clear