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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.”

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

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.

"All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook."

"These," he said gravely, "are unpleasant facts; I know it. But then most historical facts are unpleasant."

En tilstedeværende lykketilstand tar seg alltid flau ut i sammenligning med overkompansasjoner for elendighet. Og - selvsagt - stabilitet er aldri så malerisk som uro. Det å være tilfreds har intet av glansen ved å kjempe tappert mot ulykke, ikke noe av det pittoreske ved kampen mot fristelser eller de dødelige anfall av lidenskap og anfektelser. Velvære er aldri storslått.

"Our colleagues upstairs will teach them to love it." "And that," put in the director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny."