The conclusions I had reached through weakness, she had reached through faith. The certitudes were the same, with the difference that I persisted in living them—those vile things, continuing to fall for them—while she, instead, insisted on avoiding them.

That's how we are: we have to arrive at things through experimentation, not through faith. After all, it took us a long time to confirm that reality slips away... that it simply won't stay in our hands... that's why we tear each other apart inventing ever-new devices... we have to reach the Void through attrition.