“Do you know,” he added, “I feel sorry for Mr. Butler. He was too young to know better, but he robbed himself of life for the sake of thirty thousand a year that’s clean wasted upon him. Why, thirty thousand, lump sum, wouldn’t buy for him right now what ten cents he was layin’ up would have bought him, when he was a kid, in the way of candy an’ peanuts or a seat in nigger heaven.”
― Martin Eden
― Martin Eden
“Love is elixir that keeps you alive. Love is poison that kills you. Unreciprocated love keeps you alive, but kills every day.”
― A Walk in the Rain
― A Walk in the Rain
“Beauty is the only master to serve.”
― Martin Eden
― Martin Eden
“Get a job! Go to work! Poor, stupid slaves, he thought. Small wonder the world belonged to the strong. The slaves were obsessed by their own slavery. A job was to them a golden fetich before which they fell down and worshipped.”
― Martin Eden
― Martin Eden
“Rest does not come from sleeping but from waking.”
― A Course in Miracles
― A Course in Miracles
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