"That's only the anesthetic when things get unbearable.

You use duty in the same way.

But what we both want, what we both hanker for, starve for, is just life! Who cares if there is pain with it?
I don't, nor do you.

And yet we keep on stunting and stultifying ourselves with these old-fashioned remedies for a disease we only half understand, when we might have all the world and then some.

Oh, we're fools--we're fools!" His voice rang wildly passionate.