trouble a bad habit, encouraged pedants sophisticates, considering hap — Ursula K. Le Guin, Ones Walk Away Omelas

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Ursula K. Le Guin

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The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

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