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“Mother used to say that however miserable one is, theres always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her.”
“I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatterbrained woman, sacrificing everything to her, his friendships, his work, the very respectability of his life and who one evening recognize...”
“We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have th...”
“If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it. ”
“Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life, and also what's wonderful about it. The...”
“No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.”
“A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.”
“There is no fate which cannot be surmounted by scorn.”
“Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.”
“There is but one true philosophical problem and that is suicide.”
“Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand...”
“To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.”
“At such moments the collapse of their courage, willpower, and endurance was so abrupt that they felt they could never drag themselves out of the pit of despond into which they had fallen. Therefore...”
“Do you believe in God, doctor?"No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.”
“I dont know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. ”
“And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.”
“A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.”
“Dont walk in front of me I may not followDont walk behind me I may not leadWalk beside me just be my friend”
“There is so much sttuborn hope in a human heart.”
“There is do much sttuborn hope in a human heart.”
