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But without Adolf Hitler, who was possessed of a demonic personality, a granite will, uncanny instincts, a cold ruthlessness, a remarkable intellect, a soaring imagination and—until toward the end, when, drunk with power and success, he
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“Once we have embraced sin in this way and rejected our covenant with God, only a calamity can save us.”
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“he was one of those who are damned to love once”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
― The Left Hand of Darkness
“Because,” Buttercup said, “marriage involves love, and that is not a pastime at which I excel. I tried once, and it went badly, and I am sworn never to love another.”
― The Princess Bride
― The Princess Bride
“There was one thing he clung to, an excuse perhaps, like the dead emperor. It was the soul of the wretch, apathy, the belief that nothing was his fault, the belief that he couldn't change anything. If a man was cursed or if he believed he didn't have to care then he didn't need to hurt when he failed. Those failures couldn't have been prevented. Someone or something else had ordained them.”
― The Way of Kings Prime
― The Way of Kings Prime
“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
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