The most nearly free men have always been those who combined virtue with insight. - Aldous Huxley

We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstacies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude.

These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.

Extremes,' said the Controller, 'meet. For the good reason that they were made to meet.