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“How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew as much. It was for this world that Christ had died: the more evil you saw and heard about you, the greater the glory lay around the death; it was too easy to die for what was good or beautiful, for home or children or civilization--it needed a God to die for the half-hearted and the corrupt.”
― The Power and the Glory
― The Power and the Glory
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums
“To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.”
― The Savage Detectives
― The Savage Detectives
“All great and precious things are lonely.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
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