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

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

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

If your smart you can have lots of frends to talk to and you never get lonley by yourself all the time.

from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind’s eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye;

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.

So this is how a person can come to despise himself – knowing he’s doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.

A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything – all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it.

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.

People resent being shown that they don’t approach the complexities of the problem – they don’t know what exists beyond the surface ripples.