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The fact is that I have never succeeded in being anything at all-whether kind-hearted or cruel, a villain or a saint, a hero or an insect. I just crouch here in this den of mine, and worry myself with the irritating, the useless, reflection that, after all, a man of parts cannot become anything; for only a fool does that.

You will remember that in the parable, the saved go to a place prepared for them, while the damed go to a place never made for men at all. To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being in earth; to enter hell, is to be banished from humanity.

He has his wish- to live wholly in the self and to make the best of what he finds there. And what he finds there is Hell.

The causes of this distribution I do not know; but from our present point of view it ought to be clear that the real problem is not why some humble, pious, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

Plato the Greek philosopher tells us that the life of wisdom is "a practice of death."

It is hardly complimentary to God that we should choose Him as an alternative to Hell: yet even this He accepts

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.