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“But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.”

“Success went fizzily to Bernard’s head and in the process completely reconciled him…to a world which, up till then, he had found very unsatisfactory. In so far as it recognized him as important, the order of things was good. But, reconciled by his success, he yet refused to forego the privilege of criticizing this order. For the act of criticizing heightened his sense of importance, made him feel larger.”

“Do you ever feel as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren’t using— you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?”

“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.”