“But God answered with silence. He did that sometimes, and Father Ferguson always interpreted it to mean that he should think for himself. Admittedly, it didn't always work out well when the pastor thought for himself, but you couldn't just give up.”
― The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
― The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
“And he had been very badly treated by a girl too. He had thought her a really civilised and adult personality, and then she had unexpectedly revealed that she was a mass of bourgeois prejudices and monogamic instincts.”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
“Psychologically speaking (I’ll only wheel out the amateur psychology just this once, so bear with me), encounters that call up strong physical disgust or revulsion are often in fact projections of our own faults and weaknesses.”
― Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
― Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
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