“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.”
― The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
― The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
“So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . .”
― The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
― The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
“I've met plenty of fancy people. They're too scared to have any real ambition”
― Pachinko
― Pachinko
“Law requires details, not gist. Details beget facts and facts and facts, judiciously set forth, become assassins.”
― The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
― The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
“Hell is hell because, there, evil passes unremarked upon.”
― The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
― The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
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