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This famous Prussian neutrality is nothing but a trap.

The doctor declared that his physical sufferings were terrible, and he was right; but more horrible even than his physical sufferings were his moral sufferings, his greatest torment.

if there are as many minds as there are men, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

I developed a pathological pride and the insane conviction that it was my mission to teach people without knowing what I was teaching them.

I think ... if there are as many minds as there are men, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

Frankincense allows us to remain focused on the tasks at hand by keeping us calm, cool and collected when chaos is all around us.

It was the supreme expression of the mediocrity of the apparatus that Stalin himself rose to his position.

The vengeance of history is more terrible than the vengeance of the most powerful General Secretary.

Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Molly read me some books, those writers reached out and said, Look Gideon, we know about your loneliness and we know you're feeling downtrodden. And they said...I'll stand up for you. You're not lone anymore.

Anyone who goes into writing has to find out somewhere along the line, he's either naïve or insane.

Spirit of Capitalism and other studies of the relationship between religion and the origin of capitalism.

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

You don't know me from the wind you never will, you never did I'm the little jew who wrote the Bible. I've seen the nations rise and fall I've heard their stories, heard them all but love's the only engine of survival.

a young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.

I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.

They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom...for trying to change the system from within

Pigskin crackling on my thumb, nummy nummy I hate pain.

Refine your longing here, in the small silver music of her preparations, under the low-built shelter of repentance.

The truth of the line overwhelms all other considerations" 1/24/03

The silver knives are flashing in that tired old cafe...

He fastened his collar to the darkness so he couldn't breathe, and he opened the book in anger to make his payment to the law.

All your stupid charities have armed the poor against you.

Yes, I just might go to sleep but kindly leave, leave the future, leave it open

Behold the gates of mercy in arbitrary space.