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"If nothing really matters," I said, "upon becoming a man of knowledge one would find
oneself, perforce, as empty as my friend and in no better position."
"That's not so," don Juan said cuttingly. "Your friend is lonely because he will die without
seeing. In his life he just grew old and now he must have more self-pity than ever before. He
feels he threw away forty years because he was after victories and found only defeats. He'll
never know that to be victorious and to be defeated are equal.
"So now you're afraid of me because I've told you that you're equal to everything else. You're
being childish. Our lot as men is to learn and one goes to knowledge as one goes to war; I
have told you this countless times. One goes to knowledge or to war with fear, with respect,
aware that one is going to war, and with absolute confidence in oneself. Put your trust in
yourself, not in me.
"And so you're afraid of the emptiness of your friend's life. But there's no emptiness in the life
of a man of knowledge, I tell you. Everything is filled to the brim."
Don Juan stood up and extended his arms as if feeling things in the air.
"Everything is filled to the brim," he repeated, "and everything is equal. I'm not like your
friend who just grew old. When I tell you that nothing matters I don't mean it the way he does.
For him, his struggle was not worth his while, because he was defeated; for me there is no
victory, or defeat, or emptiness. Everything is filled to the brim and everything is equal and
my struggle was worth my while.
"In order to become a man of knowledge one must be a warrior, not a whimpering child. One
must strive without giving up, without a complaint, without flinching, until one sees, only to
realize then that nothing matters."

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