“That faith be analyzable does not necessarily imply a method for getting by without it. . . .”
― This Incredible Need to Believe
― This Incredible Need to Believe
“If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.”
― Molloy
― Molloy
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
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