Wednesday, March 1, 2017
And fantasy it was
And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved. We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life. We substituted good grammar for intellect; we switched habits to simulate maturity; we rearranged lies and called it truth, seeing in the new pattern of an old idea the Revelation and the Word. - Toni Morrison
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Reminds me of Don Juan in Hell: "They are not moral: they are only conventional. They are not virtuous: they are only cowardly. They are not even vicious: they are only frail."
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