Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said.
Age and illness made one a dualist
If you evade suffering, you also evade the chance of joy.
Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive. In the middle category, however - that of the unnecessary but undestructive, that of comfort, luxury, exuberance, etc
The great authors share their souls with us- "literally.
The fish in the creek said nothing. Fish never do. Few people know what fish think about injustice, or anything else.