"Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted...
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"We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which ...
"Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
"But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?
"One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ash...
"Life is hard, the earth stubborn, science rich in knowledge but poor in practical results.
"He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
"All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
"Kill me, or you are a murderer.
"The meaning of life is that it stops.
"Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
"L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin.
"So if you find nothing in the corridors open the doors, and if you find nothing behind these doors there are more floors, and if you find nothing up t...
"When the little mouse, which was loved as none other was in the mouse-world, got into a trap one night and with a shrill scream forfeited its life for...
"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer asha...