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“Is it life?" he answered, "I would rather be without it," he said, "for there is queer small utility in it. You cannot eat it or drink it or smoke it in your pipe, it does not keep the rain out and it is a poor armful in the dark if you strip it and take it to bed with you after a night of porter when you are shivering with the red passion. It is a great mistake and a thing better done without, like bed-jars and foreign bacon.”
― The Third Policeman
― The Third Policeman
“Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.”
― The Children of Men
― The Children of Men
“There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths and contains the rocker. It's an inside kind--wrapped tight like skin. Then there is the loneliness that roams. No rocking can hold it down. It is alive. On its own. A dry and spreading thing that makes the sound of one's own feet going seem to come from a far-off place.”
― Beloved
― Beloved
“Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.”
― A Separate Peace
― A Separate Peace
“We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”
― 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
― 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
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