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The shuddering would not stop. The pain was like the end of the world. He thought: There comes a point when the very discussion of pain becomes redund...more

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Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.

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Pain rises. From the heart to the head pain rises.

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and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

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My friend wants to get moving and so do I,' Eddie said. 'We've got miles to go yet.'I know that. It's on your face, son. Like a scar.'Eddie was fascin...more

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What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be

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There was a beautiful feeling of calm in my groin, a sense of peace so remarkable it was almost ecstasy——anyone who' suffered bad pain and then recove...more

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A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures, and one without must be among the most miserable, I think, the only true blessing of their ...more

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Once again there was the desert, and that only.

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The trap had a ghastly perfection

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The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go

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There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth, for the grail...more

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Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.

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Garraty wondered how it would be, to lie in the biggest, dustiest library silence of all, dreaming endless, thoughtless dreams behind your gummed-down...more

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He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much time and mo...more