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“Death is a mere human dream—a comforting fancy; it has no real existence-there is nothing in the Universe but life! O hideous misery!-I cannot die!”
― The Sorrows of Satan; Or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire; a Romance Volume 2
― The Sorrows of Satan; Or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire; a Romance Volume 2
“I love myself and loathe myself more than other men. One of these excesses attracts women, but which?”
― A Month of Sundays
― A Month of Sundays
“a boy with an unspeakable past was a man with an unendurable future. He was good to look at, good to dance with, probably good to sleep with: but he was no longer good for love.”
― Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
― Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
“It will soon be all over—a few more uneasy breathings-and I shall be at rest. I am glad—for the world and I were never good friends; I am sure that if we could know, before we were born, what life really is, we should never take the trouble to live!”
― The Sorrows of Satan; Or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire; a Romance Volume 2
― The Sorrows of Satan; Or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire; a Romance Volume 2
“Those who crusade not for God in themselves but against the devil in others, never succeed in leaving the world better, but leave it as it was or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was before the crusade began.”
― The Devils of Loudun
― The Devils of Loudun
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