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“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
“And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.”
― The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
― The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
“Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.”
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