"The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith."

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I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another. I want to believe there are geniuses scheming to astonish the rest of us, just for the pleasure of it.

— Marilynne Robinson