"Shut up, or I'll kill you!"

[snowyyama]

"If everything on earth were sensible, nothing would happen. Without you there would be no events, and there must be events. And so I serve grudgingly, for the sake of events, and I do the unreasonable on orders. People take this whole comedy for something serious, despite all their undeniable intelligence. That is their tragedy! Well, they suffer, of course, but... still they live, they live really, not in fantasy; for suffering is life. Without suffering, what pleasure would there be in it---everything would turn into an endless prayer service: holy, but a bit dull."
--- The Brothers Karamazov 11.9, trans. Pevear & Volokhonsky (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002), p.642