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He concedes that God gives to each man his temperament, his disposition, at birth; he concedes that man cannot by any process change this temperament, but must remain always under its dominion. Yet if it be full of dreadful passions, in one
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He concedes that God gives to each man his temperament, his disposition, at birth; he concedes that man cannot by any process change this temperament, but must remain always under its dominion. Yet if it be full of dreadful passions, in one man's case, and barren of them in another man's, it is right and rational to punish the one for his crimes, and reward the other for abstaining from crime.
“The flowered crown to all other abominations. A walkin plague in your own house. That’s what’s been”
― Outer Dark
― Outer Dark
“That girl enjoyed everything that bored me and everything that I enjoyed bored her. We were the perfect mates: what kept us going was the tolerable and intolerable distance between us. We kept meeting each day—and each night—with nothing solved and no chance to solve it. Perfection.”
― Shakespeare Never Did This: A 1978 Travel Memoir of Germany, Paparazzi, Racetracks, and Cathedrals
― Shakespeare Never Did This: A 1978 Travel Memoir of Germany, Paparazzi, Racetracks, and Cathedrals
“He was not to do anything in bad taste, the woman of the inn warned old Eguchi. He was not to put his finger into the mouth of the sleeping girl, or try anything else of that sort.”
― Memories of My Melancholy Whores
― Memories of My Melancholy Whores
“... that the past is one lie, and the memory has no returning, becouse every old spring is beyond retrieve, and even the craziest and most persistent love is just a temporary truth...”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
“You look down in the mouth. You all right?” “Lost a woman.” “You’ll have others and lose them too.”
― Factotum
― Factotum
Ron’s 2025 Year in Books
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