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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

Marcel Proust
“But one reads the papers as one wants to with a bandage over one’s eyes without trying to understand the facts, listening to the soothing words of the editor as to the words of one’s mistress. We are beaten and happy because we believe ourselves unbeaten and victorious.”
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]

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]

Augustine of Hippo
“For the good man is neither uplifted with the good things of time, nor broken by its ills; but the wicked man, because he is corrupted by this world's happiness, feels himself punished by its unhappiness.”
Augustine of Hippo, St. Augustine of Hippo: The City of God

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