Sublime

He gave it mortality, which made it real, but because life can’t exist without its opposite, it sowed the seeds of its future demise.

The best arguments in the world won’t change a person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story. The hair stands up all over her papery skin. That’s what he has tried to make. That’s why he let the state put him away for two lifetimes and still incriminated no one. He has traded his life for a fable that might light up the minds of st

prosaic

Augean

tenuous

aberration

The Diary of Anaïs Nin—five

"No man would work unless he had to," Terry declared.

The moral of his story was how you never know the size of hurt that’s in people’s hearts, or what they’re liable to do about it, given the chance.