LeftoverPi

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

Simone de Beauvoir

Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean that shocking, scandalous, disturbing, or repellent ideas are all original :). Nor that the original is worthwhile. But it's a good thing to keep in mind. A lot of what I'm talking about is kind of hard to swallow, but I think when we look back at it later people will wonder why we ever saw it differently.

And here's another from the same person--this really just says it all:

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.