But why should we have to be useful and for what reason? Who divided the world into useless and useful, and by what right? Does a thistle have no right to life, or a Mouse that eats the grain in a warehouse? What about Bees and Drones, weeds and roses? Whose intellect can have had the audacity to judge who is better, and who worse? A large tree, crooked and full of holes, survives for centuries without being cut down, because nothing could possibly be made out of it. This example should raise the spirits of people like us. Everyone knows the profit to be reaped from the useful, but nobody knows the benefit to be gained from the useless.

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kindi

15 days ago

“But why should we have to be useful and for what reason? Who divided the world into useless and useful, and by what right? Does a thistle have no right to life, or a Mouse that eats the grain in a warehouse? What about Bees and Drones, weeds and roses? Whose intellect can have had the audacity to judge who is better, and who worse? A large tree, crooked and full of holes, survives for centuries without being cut down, because nothing could possibly be made out of it. This example should raise the spirits of people like us. Everyone knows the profit to be reaped from the useful, but nobody knows the benefit to be gained from the useless.”- Janina Duszejko

specialberry

15 days ago

Is this genre fiction?

kindi

15 days ago

It's premise plays with aspects of detective literature but it's definitely more lit fic. From my understanding, the older woman detective is a staple of older polish crime novels

specialberry

15 days ago

That was the most retarded quote I ever made the mistake of reading.

kindi

15 days ago

surprised you bother with a computer at all when it can't come close to the heights of Arthurian literature

specialberry

15 days ago

Take it easy libtard