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Marcel Proust
“Yes, indeed, if some of these boys are a bit soft and chicken-hearted and hesitate, they shoot them immediately, a dozen bullets through the skin and that’s that. In a way it’s got to be done and what does it matter to the officers? They get their pesetas all the same and that’s all they care about.”
Marcel Proust, Time Regained [In Search of Lost Time vol. 7]

Marcel Proust
“whatever reason they give, simply don’t want to be killed, it’s nothing but funk.” And with a more emphatic gesture than when he alluded to others, “And if I don’t rejoin my regiment, it’s for the same reason.”
Marcel Proust, Time Regained [In Search of Lost Time vol. 7]

Augustine of Hippo
“another reason why the good are afflicted with temporal calamities--the reason which Job's case exemplifies:that the human spirit may be proved, and that it may be manifested with what fortitude of pious trust, and with how unmercenary a love, it cleaves to God.”
Augustine of Hippo, St. Augustine of Hippo: The City of God

Marcel Proust
“As it had been with Dreyfusism, so it was with the marriage of Saint-Loup and Odette’s daughter, a marriage people protested against at first. Now that people met everyone they knew at the Saint-Loups’, Gilberte might have had the morals of Odette herself, people would have gone there just the same and would have agreed with Gilberte in condemning undigested moral novelties like a dowager-duchess.”
Marcel Proust, Time Regained [In Search of Lost Time vol. 7]

Alex Beam
“Smith answered immediately, writing at midnight on June 22. “We dare not come,” he insisted—three times. “Your Excellency promises protection. Yet, at the same time, you have expressed fears that you could not control”
Alex Beam, American Crucifixion: The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church

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