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| 8 | 236 | View more quotes about doubtless">Doubtless I would have been safer in my tepid, gray, polluted world, conforming to its values, being careful not to question, or to feel, or discover or know, but I, somehow, perhaps unaccountably, was not discontent to be where I was. |
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| 8 | 233 | I did not think, on the other hand, that the men of this world would allow their world to be destroyed. |
| 8 | 234 | Nature, and its truths, were too important to them. |
| 8 | 235 | And so my feelings were understandably somewhat ambivalent. |
| 8 | 236 | Doubtless I would have been safer in my tepid, gray, polluted world, conforming to its values, being careful not to question, or to feel, or discover or know, but I, somehow, perhaps unaccountably, was not discontent to be where I was. |
| 8 | 237 | I had no doubt that there were dangers here as, in fact, there were on my old world, but the dangers here, I suspected, at least for the most part, would be intelligible. |
| 8 | 238 | As intelligible as the teeth of the lion, as the point of a weapon. |
| 8 | 239 | Too, the question, I reminded myself, was somewhat academic. |