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Yes yes yes, there it was. Youth must go, ah yes. But youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal...more

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The heresy of an age of reason,' or some such slovos [words]. 'I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.

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My son, my son. When I had my son I would explain all that to him when he was starry enough to like understand. But then I knew he would not understan...more

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When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

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Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off forever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of p...more

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Feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing up.

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You've sinned, I suppose, but your punishment has been out of all proportion. They have turned you into something other than a human being. You have n...more

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It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

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A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.

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Perhaps, all these years, the historiographers had been unwilling to recognize history as a spiral, perhaps because a spiral was so difficult to descr...more

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Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose.

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You're a romantic,” said Crabbe. “You expect too much. Reality's always dull, you know, but when we see that it's all there is, well-it miraculously c...more