“Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when
everyone has to throw off his mask? Do you believe that life will always let
itself be mocked? Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight in
order to avoid this? Or are you not terrified by it?...
Or can you think of anything more frightful than that it
might end with your nature being resolved into a multiplicity, that you really
might become many, become, like those unhappy demoniacs, a legion, and thus you
would have lost the inmost and holiest thing of all in a man, the unifying
power of personality.”
- Søren Kierkegaard (Cemetery Man)
