“I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.”
― Memoirs of Hadrian
― Memoirs of Hadrian
“Attianus had been right in his conjectures: the virgin gold of respect would be too soft without some alloy of fear.”
― Memoirs of Hadrian
― Memoirs of Hadrian
“My purpose was simply to diminish that mass of contradictions and abuses which eventually turn legal procedure into a wilderness where decent people hardly dare venture, and where bandits abound.”
― Memoirs of Hadrian
― Memoirs of Hadrian
“Like Rumkowski, we too are so dazzled by power and prestige as to forget our essential fragility. Willingly or not we come to terms with power, forgetting that we are all in the ghetto, that the ghetto is walled in, that outside the ghetto reign the lords of death, and that close by the train is waiting.”
― Moments of Reprieve
― Moments of Reprieve
“The sky a net, its mesh clogged with glowing stars.”
― The Shipping News
― The Shipping News
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