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What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.

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Well, you know, that was the worst of it - this suspicion of not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled and leaped, and spun, and mad...more

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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

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We were wanderers on a prehistoric earth, of an earth that wore the aspect of an unknown planet. We could have fancied ourselves the first of men taki...more

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I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other, to devo...more

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By heavens! there is something after all in the world allowing one man to steal a horse while another must not look at a halter. Steal a horse straigh...more

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We wander in our thousands over theface of the earth, the illustrious and the obscure, earning beyond theseas our fame, our money, or only a crust of ...more

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We wander in our thousands over theface of the earth, the illustrious and the obscure, earning beyond theseas our fame, our money, or only a crust of ...more

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And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon the dark paths of excessive cruelty and...more

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Sometimes it seems to me that man is come where he is not wanted, where there is no place for him; for if not, why should he want all the place? Why s...more

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She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream,--and there was no answer one could make her--there seemed to be no forgiveness for such a tr...more