"It's always been 'lie' and 'hide' and 'disappear'. I've never belonged anywhere or had the right to call anything my own. But Coach gave me keys to the court, and you told me to stay. You gave me a key and called it home."
Self-knowledge is the hardest human task because it risks revealing to the person how his self-esteem was built: on the powers of others in order to deny his own creatureliness and death. Character is the vital lie that covers over the painful ambiguities of man’s worm-godlikeness—the despair of the human condition, the miraculousness of it tightly interwoven with the stink and decay of it.
‘A lie told once remains a lie, but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth.’
