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drac11
"Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvellous, intoxicating. Therefore 'imaginative literature' is either boring or immoral (or a mixture of both). It only escapes from this alternative if in some way it passes over to the side of reality through the power of art - and only geniuses can do that."
- Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
drac11"Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvellous, intoxicating. Therefore 'imaginative literature' is either boring or immoral (or a mixture of both). It only escapes from this alternative if in some way it passes over to the side of reality through the power of art - and only geniuses can do that."
- Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace