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“When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.”
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“PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say―I say―God is dead!
PARRIS: Hear it, hear it!
PROCTOR, laughs insanely, then: A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth! For them that quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now when you know in all your black hearts that this be fraud―God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together! You are pulling Heaven down and raising up a whore!”
― The Crucible
PARRIS: Hear it, hear it!
PROCTOR, laughs insanely, then: A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth! For them that quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now when you know in all your black hearts that this be fraud―God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together! You are pulling Heaven down and raising up a whore!”
― The Crucible
“Meaning is deferred until some indefinite future.”
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“His problem is that he has so completely internalized the values of his society that he judges himself by standards rooted in social myths rather than human necessities.”
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