Somewhere you are holding the person I love," the boy said. "So, when I look out over your sands, I am also looking at her. I want to return to her, and I need your help so that I can turn myself into the wind.

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

As Upton Sinclair famously observed: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Written By Arnold Bennett

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