Thus I was placed into the world without being able to see through it — because I had never come to grips with it, because I imagined it was governed… - Friedrich Dürrenmatt

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Thus I was placed into the world without being able to see through it — because I had never come to grips with it, because I imagined it was governed by the rules of the orphanage in which I grew up. Quite unprepared, was cast into the system in which humans prey upon one another; quite unprepared, I saw myself confronted by the instincts that form them, greed, hate, fear, cunning, the thirst for power, but I was equally helpless when subjected to the feelings that make that predatory system humane: dignity, moderation, reason, and, ultimately, love.