Small animals are a great problem. I wish God had never created small animals, or else that He had made them so they could talk, or else that He'd given them better faces. Space. Take moths. They fly at the lamp and burn themsleves, and then they fly right back again. It can't be instinct, because it isn't the way it works. They just don't understand, so they go right on doing it. Then they lie on their backs and all their legs quiver, and then they're dead. Did you get all that? Does it sound good?"" Very good, " Grandmother said. Sophia stood up and shouted, "Say this: say I hate everything that dies slow! Say I hate everything that won't let you help! Did you write that?. Tove Jansson
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This quote is by William Faulkner. It's about Grandmother. He talks about how moths fly into the lamp and then die. A moth that dies in the "wrong way" wouldn't do this.

It would fly into the lamp and burn itself, but it would understand that it was dying, and it would try to do the right thing. Grandmother is like that; she wants people to be able to help her, but she's not always sensitive enough.

Source: The Summer Book

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