When One Tears Away The Veils And

While All Is New, All Is Beautiful. That Is A Well-known Song. Yes, And The Next Day The Air Changes Into Another One Equally Well Known.

When One Tears Away The Veils And Shows Them Naked, People's Souls Give Off Such A Pungent Smell Of Decay.

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.

Children, By Nature, Are Keen, Passionate And Curious. What Was Referred To As Laziness Is Often Merely An Awakening Of Sensitivity, A Psychological Inability To Submit To Certain Absurd Duties, And A Natural Result Of The Distorted, Unbalanced Education Given To Them. This Laziness, Which Leads To An Insuperable Reluctance To Learn, Is, Contrary To Appearances, Sometimes Proof Of Intellectual Superiority And A Condemnation Of The Teacher.

The Universe Appears To Me Like An Immense, Inexorable Torture-garden…passions, Greed, Hatred, And Lies; Social Institutions, Justice, Love, Glory, Heroism, And Religion: These Are Its Monstrous Flowers And Its Hideous Instruments Of Eternal Human Suffering.