Not Even

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.'

'In fact,' said Mustapha Mond, 'you're claiming the right to be unhappy.'

'All right then,' said the Savage defiantly, 'I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.'

'Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.' There was a long silence.

'I claim them all,' said the Savage at last.

Mustapha Mond shrugged his shoulders. 'You're welcome," he said.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.”
― Johann Gottlieb Fichte

“The living and efficaciously acting moral order is itself God. We require no other God, nor can we grasp any other.”
― Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Religious and Philosophical Writings of Johann Gottlieb Fichte