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“I know why I’m going—and, Tom, I know where I’m going, and I am content.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“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
“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
“There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.”
― Julius Caesar
― Julius Caesar
“No, they didn’t have any money, the sea was dangerous and men were lost, but it was a satisfying life in a way people today do not understand. There was a joinery of lives all worked together, smooth in places, or lumpy, but joined. The work and the living you did was the same things, not separated out like today.”
― The Shipping News
― The Shipping News
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