even here, when matter has been defined as a kind of descent, this descent as
the interruption of a rise, this rise itself as a growth, the same question springs up: why
does this principle exist rather than nothing?

if i ask myself why bodies or minds exist rather than nothing, i find no answer.

i cannot get rid of the idea that the full is an embroidery on the void, that being is superimposed on nothing. hence all the mystery.