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“I . . . I’m not someone who can just . . . leave someone behind.”
― After You
― After You
“I will tell you something else, King, which may be a surprise for you. It will not happen for hundreds of years, but both of us are to come back.”
― The Once and Future King
― The Once and Future King
“And, my brothers, it was real satisfaction to me to waltz-left two three, right two three-and carve left cheeky and right cheeky, so that like two curtains of blood seemed to pour out at the same time, one on either side of his fat filthy oily snout in the winter starlight.”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange
“Two different sets of philosophers have attempted to teach us this hardest of all the lessons of morality. One set have laboured to increase our sensibility to the interests of others; another, to diminish that to our own. The first would have us feel for others as we naturally feel for ourselves. The second would have us feel for ourselves, as we naturally feel for others.”
― The Theory of Moral Sentiments to Which is Added a Dissertation on the Origin of Languages
― The Theory of Moral Sentiments to Which is Added a Dissertation on the Origin of Languages
“Between birth and burial, we find ourselves in a comedy of mysteries. If you don't think life is mysterious, if you believe you have it all mapped out, you aren't paying attention or you've anesthetized yourself with booze or drugs, or with a comforting ideology. And if you don't think life's a comedy - well, friend, you might as well hurry along to that burial. The rest of us need people with whom we can laugh.”
― Odd Apocalypse
― Odd Apocalypse
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