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Fun... human nature... does no one any harm... Regular as clockwork the old excuses came back into the alert, sad and dissatisfied brain--nothing ever...more

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He disapproved, he didn't believe in girls drinking, he was full of the conventions of a generation older than himself. Of course one drank oneself, o...more

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Death never mattered at those times - in the early days I even used to pray for it: the shattering annihilation that would prevent for ever the gettin...more

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Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim

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Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.

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Death was far more certain than God.