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These are the corporate beggars. But there are, besides, the individual beggars; and how does the heart of the Secretary fail him when he has to cope with THEM! And they must be coped with to some extent, because they all enclose documents
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“The trouble is that we can’t trust life, and in order to keep going with it at all, we have to be for ever watching it and patching it up.”
― Benighted
― Benighted
“This is not for you.”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
“in man’s inward lexicon, the phobias outnumber the philias a thousand to one!”
― Smoke Ghost: & Other Apparitions
― Smoke Ghost: & Other Apparitions
“We couldn't understand because we were too far... and could not remember because we were traveling in the night of first ages, those ages that had gone, leaving hardly a sign... and no memories.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“The cop rolled against the side of the corridor and slid to his knees, leaving a trail of fiercely burning blood on the wall. Then he collapsed and lay still, and in front of our eyes, to our overwhelming horror, the flames that were burning inside him gradually broke out, singeing and then setting fire to his uniform from inside, and then engulfing his whole body until he lay on the carpet blazing like a ritual suicide.”
― Charnel House
― Charnel House
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