Flowers For Algernon: The must-read literary science fiction masterpiece (S.F. MASTERWORKS Book 6)

intelligence and education that hasn’t been tempered by human affection isn’t worth a damn.’

Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.

‘The more intelligent you become the more problems you’ll have, Charlie.

Paradise Lost I could only remember it was about

Who’s to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who’s to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say?

What’s right? Ironic that all my intelligence doesn’t help me solve a problem like this.

Now I understand one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you’ve believed in all your life aren’t true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.

I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.

As when men to keep from being swept overboard in the storm clutch at each other’s hands to resist being torn apart, so our bodies fused a link in the human chain that kept us from being swept into nothing.