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“For if this God exists, I thought, and if even you – with your lusts and your adulteries and the timid lies you used to tell – can change like this, we could all be saints by leaping as you leapt, by shutting the eyes and leaping once and for all: if you are a saint, it’s not so difficult to be a saint. It’s something He can demand of any of us, leap.”
― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

tags: adultery, god, lies, lust, saints, sin

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“let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will always be in her heart”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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“St. Augustine asked where time came from. He said it came out of the future which didn't exist yet, into the present that had no duration, and went into the past which had ceased to exist.”
― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

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“tomorrow would bring its own trial with it so would the next day, and so would the next; each its own trial and yet the very same that was so now so unutterably grievous to be”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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“We may call Eurydice forth from the world of the dead, but we cannot make her answer; and when we turn to look at her we glimpse her only for a moment, before she slips from our grasp and flees. As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and, try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our own day.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

tags: dark, day, dystopia, eurydice, light, matrix, past, time, wisdom

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