If we paper over the poverty of his condition,
the unflinching vulnerability of his state,
and his deliberately willed dependence on others,
we disfigure him into the image of what we vainly want for ourselves.
If we paper over the poverty of his condition,
the unflinching vulnerability of his state,
and his deliberately willed dependence on others,
we disfigure him into the image of what we vainly want for ourselves.