“For a long while I have lived with the notion that I was the most normal being that ever existed. This notion gave me the taste, even the passion for being unproductive: what was the use of being prized in a world inhabited by madmen, a world mired in mania and stupidity? For whom was one to bother, and to what end? It remains to be seen if I have quite freed myself from this certitude, salvation in the absolute, ruin in the immediate.”
― The Trouble With Being Born
― The Trouble With Being Born
“For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened. …"
No sooner are they open than the drama beings. To look without understanding—that is paradise. Hell, then, would be the place where we understand, where we understand too much. …”
― The Trouble With Being Born
No sooner are they open than the drama beings. To look without understanding—that is paradise. Hell, then, would be the place where we understand, where we understand too much. …”
― The Trouble With Being Born
“A conscious fruit fly would have to confront exactly the same difficulties, the same kind of insoluble problems as man.”
― The Trouble With Being Born
― The Trouble With Being Born
“Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.”
― The Trouble With Being Born
― The Trouble With Being Born
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