"<p>After a person has already realized with a shocking and easily recalled insight his own aimlessness, it is incomprehensible to him that others are not even capable of this. Extinguishing yourself seems so obvious and simple! So why is it so rare, why does everyone miss it? Because reason rejects the will to live in vain, the power of nothing to prolong actions exceeds that of all absolutes; this explains the tacit covenant of mortals against death; this nothingness is not a mere symbol of existence, it is existence itself; that's all. And this nothing - this everything - although it is unable to give meaning to life, it nevertheless forces it to persist in the state it is in: the absence of suicide.</p>"