“And a one-third death through the premature using up of the Bobbin-kandeluost of the feeling-center occurs for the most part among those terrestrial beings who become by profession what are called ‘representatives-of-Art’. BTG XXIX

“Most of these terrestrial professionals, especially the contemporary ones, first fall ill with one or another form of what is called ‘psychopathy’, and thanks to this, they later in their psychopathy intentionally learn, as they say, to ‘feel’; and thereafter repeatedly feeling these abnormal being-impulses, they gradually use up the contents of the Bobbin-kandelnost of their feeling-center, and thus disharmonizing the tempo of their own common presences bring themselves to that peculiar end which is not often met with even among them there. BTG XXIX

“Here, by the way, it is very interesting also to notice that the one-third death through the feeling-center occurs among your favorites also thanks to one very peculiar form of ‘psychopathy’, called there ‘altruism’. BTG XXIX