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When we're healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea.

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The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

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Well, everything's a lesson, isn't it? Learning all the time, as you could say.

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The thrill of theft, of violence, the urge to live easy - is it worth it when we have undeniable proof, yes, yes, incontrovertible evidence that hell ...more

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You got shook and shook till there was nothing left. You lost your name and your body and your self and you just didn't care.

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And yet, in a sense, in choosing to be deprived of the ability to make an ethical choice, you have in a sense really chosen the good.

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You can viddy that everything in this wicked world counts. You can pony that one thing always leads to another. Right right right.

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What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the g...more

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You have no cause to grumble boy. You made your choice and all this is a consequence of your choice. Whatever now ensues is what you yourself have cho...more

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The intention to act violently is accompanied by strong feelings of physical distress.

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The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance. You must take y...more

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Oh? And what's so stinking about it?.

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You were not put on this earth just to get in touch with God.