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But as long as I’m telling my story, I might as well get that nasty detail out of the way as early as possible, lest you make the mistake of getting too attached.
“If you eliminate suffering from this world you eliminate life. There’s no evolution. Those species that don’t suffer don’t survive.”
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
“To define something is to subordinate it to a tangle of intellectual relationships. And when you do that you destroy real understanding.”
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
“Whenever you kill a human being you are killing a source of thought too. A human being is a collection of ideas, and these ideas take moral precedence over a society.”
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
“He wasn't going to send her to any hospital. He knew that now. At a hospital they'd just start shooting her full of drugs and tell her to adjust. What they wouldn't see is that she is adjusting. That's what the insanity is. She's adjusting to something. The insanity is the adjustment. Insanity isn't necessarily a step in the wrong direction, it can be an intermediate step in a right direction. It wasn't necessarily a disease. It could be part of a cure.”
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
“The most sinister thing about the fall of the Roman Empire was that the people who conquered it never understood that they had done so. They paralyzed the patterns of Roman social structure to a point where everybody just forgot what that structure was. Taxes became uncollectible. Armies composed of hired barbarians stopped receiving pay. Everything just lapsed. The patterns of civilization were forgotten, and a Dark Age settled in.”
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
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