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“I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up b...”
“But that was life: Nobody got a guided tour to their own theme park. You had to hop on the rides as they presented themselves, never knowing whether you would like the one you were in line for...or...”
“Where we choose to be, where we choose to be--we have the power to determine that in our lives. We cannot reel time backward or forward, but we can take ourselves to the place that defines our being.”
“Then were just sitting there, staring at each other. Which has been happening a lot lately. Its likewhatever wall there was between us, however she was holding herself back from me . . . all of tha...”
“Passionately embrace your sacred existence.”
“Here is your great soulthe man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe and would rather re...”
“Karass: A group of people linked in a cosmically significant manner, even when superficial linkages are not evident”
“We needed germans in Paris to hear Wagner.”
“And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasnt enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. Ive never been a...”
“It always took my breath away, he said, that the five of us could have found one anotheragainst such odds, through all the layers of armored fortifications each of us had set up Do you see now why ...”
“Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?”
“I am alone this evening, and I am alone because of a cruel twist of fate, a phrase which here means that nothing has happened the way I thought it would. Once I was a content man, with a comfortabl...”
“It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much...”
“If the gods have determined about me and about the things which must happen to me, they have determined well, for it is not easy even to imagine a deity without forethought; and as to doing me harm...”
“Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his mind.”
“Presumably, the bells of the Church of the Ascension had been reclaimed by the Bolsheviks for the manufacture of artillery, thus returning them to the realm from whence they came. Though for all th...”
“I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted with hunger. I am deep in the old mans puzzle, trying to link the wisdom of the body with the w...”
“You possess great strength, great spirit and great soul.”
“And wonder, dread and warhave lingered in that landwhere loss and love in turnhave held the upper hand.”
“We are not bound by time. But there are things we cannot speak of because the repercussions of particular thoughts can break lives.”
