All human accomplishment has the same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Ima… - Saul Bellow

I am sure you were sincere. Not insincere. True insincerity is hard to find.

In the greatest confusion there is still an open channel to the soul. It may be difficult to find because by midlife it is overgrown, and some of the wildest thickets that surround it grow out of what we describe as our education. But the channel is always there, and it is our business to keep it open, to have access to the deepest part of ourselves.

There are evils, as someone has pointed out, that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever — money, for instance, or war.