Famous Quotes | Yet there is a mystery here and...
Yet there is a mystery here and it is not one that I understand: without the sting of otherness, of—even—the vicious, without the terrible energies of the underside of health, sanity, sense, then nothing works or can work. I tell you that goodness-what we in our ordinary daylight selves call goodness: the ordinary, the decent—these are nothing without the hidden powers that pour forth continually from their shadow sides. Their hidden aspects contained and tempered.
- Doris Lessing
Attribution: Doris Lessing (b. 1919), British novelist. The Chronicler, in The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five, p. 198, Knopf (1980).
Categories: Evil, Opposites, Otherness
