

“If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms

“All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters

“A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters

“I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.”
― The Sun Also Rises
― The Sun Also Rises

“Once you have made the world an end, and faith a means, you have almost won your man, and it makes very little difference what kind of worldly end he is pursuing.”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters
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