" And I ask myself, why does reality have to be simple. My experience has taught me that,
on he contrary, it is almost never that way. And when there is something that seems to be
very clear, something that seems to have a simple cause, behind it there are always more
complicated motives. An ordinary example: people who give alms usually feel that it
makes more generous and better than those who do not give. I can’t help but feel disdain
for such a simplistic theory. Any one knows, you will never solve a beggar’s problem
(any real beggar) with a peso, or a piece of bread. All it does is solve the problem of the
person who buys some spiritual tranquility and his title of generosity for almost nothing.
Just think how stingy these people are when they only give one peso a day to reassure
their spiritual tranquility, and the comforting vanity of their kindness. How much more
spiritual purity, and how much more courage it takes to overcome the existence of human
misery than this hypocritical ( and frequent) way of behaving! "
- Ernesto Sabato
imo, one of his best quotes, brilliant
