In the depths of the night, lying awake when the world is asleep, W. poses himself great questions. What do you consider your greatest weakness? – Never to have come to terms with my lack of ability. What do you think is your greatest delusion? – I have the fantasy of joining a community of thinkers, and this prevents individual action and individual thought. What motivates you? – Fear and anxiety.
What's your greatest disappointment? – To know what greatness is, and that I will never, never achieve it, even if everything in my life was right. What's your worst trait? – Fear and anxiety cloud all my judgements and relations. What's your greatest intellectual gift? – I don't think I have any. I see my intellectual life as a crushing failure. I only continue out of debilitating fear.
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