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“...theres nothing of any importance in lifeexcept how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. Its the only measure of human value.”
“No, justice has not ceased to exist. How could it? It is possible for men to abandon their sight of it, and then it is justice that destroys them. But it is not possible for justice to go out of ex...”
“There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spiritand if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.”
“When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer.”
“...there was no guilt in his face, no doubt, nothing but the calm of an inviolate self-confidence.”
“It was his self-esteem she had sought to destroy, knowing that a man who surrenders his value is at the mercy of anyones will; it was his moral purity she had struggled to breach, it was his confid...”
“She had set out to break him, as if, unable to equal his value, she could surpass it by destroying it, as if the measure of his greatness would thus become the measure of hers, as if the vandal who...”
“The justice which would forgive miles of innocent errors of knowledge, would not forgive a single step taken in conscious evil.”
“Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil.”
“The only thing that counts in life is solid, material assets. It's no time for theories when everything is falling to pieces around us.”
“No action could be lower or more futile than for one person to throw upon another the burden of his abdication of choice.”
“As she looked at him, her dark gray eyes went slowly from astonishment to stillness, then to a strange expression that resembled a look of weariness, except that it seemed to reflect much more than...”
“...she stood beside him, sagging in his arms, abandoning herself to anything he wished, in open acknowledgment of his power to reduce her to helplessness by the pleasure he had the power to give her.”
“He saw the article...which was not an expression of ideas, but a bucket of slime emptied in publican article that did not contain a single fact, not even an invented one, but poured a stream of sne...”
“...he had never known fear because, against any disaster, he had held the omnipotent cure of being able to act.”
“He saw for the first time that he had never known fear because, against any disaster, he had held the omnipotent cure of being able to act.”
“...he had acquired the conviction that one had to concern oneself with the rational, not the insanethat one had to seek that which was right, because the right answer always wonthat the senseless, ...”
“Throughout his life, whenever he became convinced that a course of action was right, the desire to follow it had come automatically.”
“She had been proved right so eloquently, she had thought, that comments were unnecessary.”
“Are you saying, he asked slowly, that I rose in your estimation when you found that I wanted you?Of course.Thats not the reaction of most people to being wanted.It isnt.Most people feel that they r...”
