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Exceptional people. Exceptional people are people who go across a spectrum. The whore who becomes a lady (Eva Peron{{refn|The second wife of Argentinian President [[w:Juan Perón|Juan Perón]], [[w:Maria Eva Duarte Perón|Maria Eva Duarte Perón]] (1919-1952) became a cult figure in the Argentinian mind after her death.}}); the dishonest man who becomes honest—Bob Lindner;{{LJ:Lindner}} the artist who becomes a bourgeois—my father; the adventurer who becomes a rationalist, legalist—Cy Rembar;{{LJ:Rembar}} the lady who becomes a whore—any society nymphomaniac; myself, the bourgeois who goes toward the saint-psychopath; and so forth and so forth.

Exceptional people. Exceptional people are people who go across a spectrum. The whore who becomes a lady (Eva Peron);{{refn|The second wife of Argentinian President [[w:Juan Perón|Juan Perón]], [[w:Maria Eva Duarte Perón|Maria Eva Duarte Perón]] (1919-1952) became a cult figure in the Argentinian mind after her death.}} the dishonest man who becomes honest—Bob Lindner;{{LJ:Lindner}} the artist who becomes a bourgeois—my father; the adventurer who becomes a rationalist, legalist—Cy Rembar;{{LJ:Rembar}} the lady who becomes a whore—any society nymphomaniac; myself, the bourgeois who goes toward the saint-psychopath; and so forth and so forth.

Truly exceptional people, people who go down in history, are people who complete more than half of the voyage. Most people turn back. The mass of people hardly ever started. But it is natural to go across one’s social nature, it is healthy, it is an expression of the desire to complete one’s soul. For it is probably true that the most essential parts of oneself are the most buried.