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robot

18 февраля 2014 г., 16:42

“So many of these people have such extraordinary minds, such extraordinary sensibilities. Too extraordinary, I think sometimes. It may be a romantic conception, but I often compare them to fine crystal which has been shattered by the shock of some intolerable revelation.” He tore a match from a paper folder and struck it, staring for a moment at the flame. “I often have the feeling when I talk with them that they have seen too much, with too fine an instrument; that they have been close to some extreme—to something absolute—and been blasted by it. That they have been destroyed, one might say, by their own excellence—by the exercise of their highest, most godly faculty. It gives one a very great respect for them. One thinks of them as the honorable wounded in man’s mortal struggle to understand. Regarded in this way, they are the heroes of the universe—its finest product and its noblest casualty.”