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I am not afraid,_ she said; which seemed quite presumptuous enough.__ou are not afraid of suffering?___es, I am afraid of suffering. But I am not afraid of ghosts. And I think people suffer too easily,_ she added.__ don__ believe you do,_ said Ralph, looking at her with his hands in his pockets.__ don__ think that__ a fault,_ she answered. __t is not absolutely necessary to suffer; we were not made for that.___ou were not, certainly.___ am not speaking of myself._ And she turned away a little.__o, it isn__ a fault,_ said her cousin. __t__ a merit to be strong.___nly, if you don__ suffer, they call you hard,_ Isabel remarked. They passed out of the smaller drawing-room, into which they had returned from the gallery, and paused in the hall, at the foot of the staircase. Here Ralph presented his companion with her bed-room candle, which he had taken from a niche. __ever mind what they call you,_ he said. __hen you do suffer, they call you an idiot. The great point is to be as happy as possible.

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Henry James

The Portrait of a Lady

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Idiot - A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.

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Ambrose Bierce

The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

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We make, see, and love films, not digitals. To convert all of our movies, home videos, theaters, photographs and television to digital would be like telling a painter to throw away his brushes and canvas for an I-Pad. Celluloid isn't just nostalgic, it's an art form and, like it or not, it's superior to digital. It lasts much longer, it provides grain and brighter colors, and it takes more effort so that it produces something wonderful. With the inferior binary codes, pixels and untested shelf-life of digital files, plus the fact that these days anyone with a digital camera, even a two-year-old, can make a video and pollute the world with self-photography and cat pictures, film has a lot more integrity and worth than digital.

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Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked idiots stretches to the horizon. Complete silence - their speech centres are destroyed - except for the crackle of sparks and the popping of singed flesh as they apply electrodes up and down the spine. White smoke of burning flesh hangs in the motionless air. A group of children have tied an idiot to a post with barbed wire and built a fire between his legs and stand watching with bestial curiosity as the flames lick his thighs. His flesh jerks in the fire with insect agony.