Being Gifted Needs Courage.

I Was Always Hearing That I Was Pale And Thin And Small.

That A Literature In Our Time Is Living Is Shown In That Way That It Debates Problems.

But What Of The Voice And Judgment Of Conscience? The Difficulty Is That We Have A Conscience Behind Our Conscience, An Intellectual One Behind The Moral. ... We Can See Quite Well That Our Opinions Of What Is Noble And Good, Our Moral Valuations, Are Powerful Levers Where Action Is Concerned; But We Must Begin By Refining These Opinions And Independently Creating For Ourselves New Tables Of Values.

What Has Here Happened Is That The Instinct Of Cruelty, Which Has Turned Inwards, Has Become Self-torture, And All Man's Animal Instincts Have Been Reinterpreted As Guilt Towards God. Every Nay Man Utters To His Nature, To His Real Being, He Flings Out As A Yea, An Affirmation Of Reality Applied To God's Sanctity

Greatness Has Nothing To Do With Results Or With Success.