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They were watching the articulate become dumb, the wise become a fool. Didn't the clown always appeal to cruelty?

Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy. Elaborate euphemisms may conceal your intent to kill, but behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: "I feed on your energy."

"We will feel the thunderbolt."

The flesh surrenders itself, he thought. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not... yet, I occurred.

"Once more the drama begins."

"Her arms enclosed his future as they enclosed him."

"Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity."