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“We leave a stain, we leave a trail, we leave our imprint. Impurity, cruelty, abuse, error, excrement, semen - there’s no other way to be here. Nothing to do with disobedience. Nothing to do with grace or salvation or redemption. It’s in everyone. Indwelling. Inherent. Defining. The stain that is there before its mark.”
― The Human Stain
― The Human Stain
“If civilization has an opposite, it is war.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
― The Left Hand of Darkness
“Nothing lasts, and yet nothing passes, either. And nothing passes just because nothing lasts.”
― The Human Stain
― The Human Stain
“Death alone can make others respect our sufferings; and through death the most pitiable sufferings acquire dignity.”
― Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
― Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
“The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong.”
― American Pastoral
― American Pastoral
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