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“You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.”
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“What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?”
― A Grief Observed
― A Grief Observed
“People always love it when you say their dogs are nice. Just shows you how out of touch they are.”
― C is for Corpse
― C is for Corpse
“Why does crime, even when as powerful as Cæsar, and assured of being beyond punishment, strive always for the appearances of truth, justice, and virtue? Why does it take the trouble?”
― Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero
― Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can’t lick ‘em, join ‘em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. We have almost lost hold; we can no longer describe a happy man, nor make any celebration of joy.”
― The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1
― The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1
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