This Demon that sits inside me will not take me. I believe if I believe, that I will persevere and make it through another day. I will evade the Demon and avoid its sufferance for another moment. The Demon has no real power over me. Sentimentality makes the mind weak.
Fear makes the spirit weak.
These may be the same things. I think that I fear sentimentality. You'll never get a dealer to agree to not sell you junk. Not because he wants to make money off you, but because he has an intrinsic sympathy for your condition. My life is full of ghosts.