Quote du Jour: Like Simone

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I have an intuition that Simone Weil would have nothing to say against this:

xxxThe longing for paradise, whether here on earth or in the beyond, has almost ceased to be. Instead of an idée-force it has become an idée fixe. From a potent myth it has degenerated into a taboo. Men will sacrifice their lives to bring about a better world—whatever that may mean—but they will not budge an inch to attain paradise. Nor will they struggle to create a bit of paradise in the hell they find themselves. It is so much easier, and gorier, to make revolution, which means, to put it simply, establishing another, a different, status quo. If paradise were realizable—this is the classic retort!—it would no longer be paradise.

xxxWhat is one to say to a man who insists on making his own prison?

xxxxxxxxx~ Henry Miller, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

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