"Etre un homme utile m'a paru toujours quelque chose de bien hideux. To be useful has always seemed to me quite hideous."

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The name of God should no longer come from the mouth of man. This word that has so long been degraded by usage no longer means anything.... To use the word God is more than sloth, it is a refusal to think, a king of short cut, a hideous shorthand.

— Arthur Adamov