A Jewish fellow named Saul Epstein owns a nail company, very successful, and when he retires, he hands it over to his son-in-law. Then he moves to Florida and is there one day, reading the New York Times, when he comes upon a full-page ad.
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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
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