The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
—

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (via quoted-books)

<3 this lady is my love.