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Bejesus, ye're a fussy black.

Mr Flosky suddenly stopped: he found himself unintentionally trespassing within the limits of common sense.

For he used to say...that knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert and of good cheer.

Malice, my dear sir, is the animating spirit of criticism; and criticism is the beginning of progress and enlightenment

What, she's French?' he repeats. And what do you suppose this tall dragoon says next?—'An émigrée, you mean?' he says. 'But then she must be an enemy of philosophy!

But if they had no sun, they had snow. Such masses of snow as Hans Castorp had never till now in all his life beheld.

étui from beneath his cloak, and handed

That seems so strange to me: diseased and stupid both—I don't exactly know how to express it, but it gives me a most peculiar feeling, when somebody is so stupid, and then ill into the bargain. It must be the most melancholy thing in life.

And both together, love-worthy and life-worthy, made up the true nobility.

Has he really insulted me? But an insult must be of intent, otherwise it can be none.

And with that she dipped her fourth slice of raisin bread in her coffee.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. Ghandi, quoted in Merton, p. 68

It is a terrible thing to think of the grace that is wasted in this world

Neither of my parents suffered from the little spooky prejudices that devour the people who know nothing but automobiles and movies and what's in the ice-box and what's in the papers and which neighbors are getting a divorce.

Hence the sacred attitude is one which does not recoil from our own inner emptiness, but rather penetrates into it with awe and reverence, and with the awareness of mystery.

Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men.

then you obey my commandments, which I command you this day, that you love the Lord your God and serve Him with all your heart, and with all your soul:

Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world's intrusion into this one. Most of the time we coexist peacefully, but when we do touch there's cataclysm.

Some would say eccentric. I would say stoned out of his fuckin mind, nothing personal.

Mason glowers, shaking his head. I've ascended, descended, even condescended, and the List's not ended,— but haven't yet trans-cended a blessed thing, thankee.

Stencil had called from a Hungarian coffee shop on York Avenue known as Hungarian Coffee Shop

A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.