alive and mortal at one and the same time, not simply in life, but in that interest in life we call love. That is the twofold passion of life. The secret of life is very simple and sounds strange at the same time: He who would keep his life will lose it and is already losing it. He who, however, risks his life and surrenders it, will gain it and is gaining it already. To keep one’s life means to hold onto oneself; one hardly dares to live because of one’s sheer dread of death, or to love because