To be godless is probably the first step to innocence,” he said, “to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost.
So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions.
An absence of need for illusions,” he said.
“A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes.
Horror and moral terror can never be exonerated. They have no real value. Pure evil has no real place. And that means, doesn’t it, that I have no place.