Sacrifice is the surrender of that which you value in favor of that which you
don’t. . . . It is not a sacrifice to renounce the unwanted. It is not a
sacrifice to give your life to others, if death is your personal desire. To
achieve the virtue of sacrifice, you must want to live, you must love it, you
must burn with passion for this earth and for all the splendor it can give
you—you must feel the twist of every knife as it slashes your desires away
from your reach and drains your love out of your body. It is not mere death
that the morality of sacrifice holds out to you as an ideal, but death by slow
torture.