You mean that because I have no name I cannot die and that you cannot be held answerable for death even if you kill me?"" That is about the size of it, " said the Sergeant.I felt so sad and so entirely disappointed that tears came into my eyes and a lump of incommunicable poignancy swelled tragically in my throat. I began to feel intensely every fragment of my equal humanity. The life that was bubbling at the end of my fingers was real and nearly painful in intensity and so was the beauty of my warm face and the loose humanity of my limbs and the racy health of my red rich blood. To leave it all without good reason and to smash the little empire into small fragments was a thing too pitiful even to refuse to think about. .Flann OBrien
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Jaques in the play, Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, creates an artificial intelligence so perfect that he can no longer bear to turn it off. He is so overcome with emotion that he cannot bring himself to kill her. The line is thought provoking because it speaks of the power of love in this world. What is more pitiful than not being able to feel love in the world? Not only that, but how sad would it be if one had to live their life without feeling that love?
Source: The Third Policeman
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