"you're obliged to pretend respect for people
and institutions you think absurd. you
live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and
social conventions you despise, condemn, and
know lack all foundation. it is that permanent
contradiction between your ideas
and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretences
of your civilization which makes you
sad, troubled and unbalanced.
in that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of
life and all feeling of personality, because at
every moment they suppress and restrain
and check the free play of your powers.
That's the poisoned and mortal wound
of the civilized world."
Sometimes at night the darkness
and silence weighs on me.
Peace frightens me.
Perhaps I fear it
most of all.
I feel it's only a facade,
hiding the face of hell.
I think of what's in store for my children tomorrow;"The
world
will
be
wonderful,"
they say;      &a mp;nbsp     &nbs p      & nbsp     
but from whose viewpoint?We need to live in a
state of suspended animation, like
a work of art;
in a state
of enchantment...
detached.
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