Fortsetzung von Teil 3
You're the man who would know that just as an idea unexpressed in physical action is contemptible hypocrisy (Heuchelei, Anm.), so is platonic love - and just as physical action unguided by an idea is a fool's self-fraud, so is sex cut off from one's code of values. It's the same issue, and You would know it. Your inviolate sense of self-esteem would know it.
You would be incapable of desire for a woman you despised. Only the man who extols the purity of a love devoid (leer, Anm.) of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love. But observe that most people are creatures cut in half who keep swinging desperately to one side or to the other.
One kind of half is the man who despises money, factories, skyscrapers and his own body. He holds undefined emotions about non-conceivable subjects as the meaning of life and as his claim to virtue. And he cries with despair, because he can feel nothing for the woman he respects, but finds himself in bondage to an irresistible passion for a slut from the gutter. He is the man who people call an idealist.
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