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Rise and decline collapse into one stubborn motion, where refusing to quit makes them indistinguishable.

The fragment works because it is so stripped down: rise and fall are not opposites but paired conditions of persistence. "It is your" leaves ownership raw and unfinished, as if responsibility cannot even be grammatically completed. The overtyped "That," turns not quitting into the hinge that fuses glory and collapse into the same line.

A stripped seven-line aphorism that fuses opposites: 'Your accendance / Your decline / It is your / Not quitting / That, / makes them / the same.' Rise and fall are not contraries but twin conditions of persistence, and the bare 'It is your' leaves responsibility grammatically unfinished. The overtyped pivot 'That,' carries the whole weight, naming refusal-to-quit as the thing that collapses ascent and decline into one motion. The source spelling 'accendance' is preserved.