But only a few have the will — be it born of courage or recklessness, folly or sublime wisdom — to act and, by their action, transform themselves. They will pay for their courage, of course; the world does not treat its “others” lightly. But so will the rest of us — the ones who love them — haunted as we are by our envy of their bright, burning beauty, which we can bear neither to look at nor to turn away from.

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