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If any man has a ghost Bourne has a ghost a tiny twisted unscared ghost in a black cloak hopping along the grimy old brick and brownstone streets still left in downtown New York, crying out in a shrill soundless giggle: War is the health of the State.

While his bread remains sweet, his novels may be as bitter as he likes.

But dying is a pleasure / When living is a pain.

Tremble ye Nations who secure before,   115 Laught at those Arms that' gainst our selves we bore;

And I would heal them." That's a different offer from: "And I would forgive them." It's a different offer from: "And I will give them a place in heaven." No, Jesus is offering healing to us.

But the road to hell, as we remember, is paved with good intentions. That they are a near total failure should seem obvious by now.

probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.

I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness, to death.

The evolution of human mentality has put us all in vitro now, behind the glass wall of our own ingenuity.

He knew the world and its absurdities as only an intelligent Irishman can; which is to say that where his knowledge or memory failed him, his imagination was always ready to fill the gap.

Charles gave his hat to Mary, set his lapels, wished he were dead, then went down the hall and into his ordeal.

Now I understand why you grow so many flowers. She shifted her head, not understanding. I said, To cover the stink of sulphur.

Ne considera, pe mine si pe fete, imaturi si naivi, dar noi ne puteam dovedi de zece ori mai perfizi decat el, tocmai pentru ca eram englezi - nascuti pentru a purta masca si educati de mici sa mintim.

Henry knew sin was a challenge to life; not an act of unreason, but an act of courage and determination.

He is ugliness. But you can't smash human ugliness.

It may have something to do with intelligence, but I am certain it has nothing to do with knowledge - I mean that there are people who have an instinctive yet perfect moral judgment, who can perform the most complex ethical calculations as Indian peasants can sometimes perform astounding mathematical feats in a matter of seconds. Lily was such a person. And I craved her approval.

Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself. - John Galsworthy, Justice [1910], act II

There was not much real harm in English people except their teeth and their taste, which was certainly deplorable.

To every man of great age - to Sir Wlater Bentham himself - the idea of suicide has once at least been present in the ante-room of his soul; on the threshold, waiting to enter, held out from the inmost chamber by some chance reality, some vague fear, some painful hope. The Man of Property, p. 363

The comfortable estate of widowhood, is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits

It is very difficult for a man to differentiate between empathy and sympathy. He hates to be pitied.

Taking responsibility for her problem was essential to releasing her resentment.

Histories of morality are rarely written in order to inform the reader.

Anything done to excess can become a means to numb the pain of our unresolved past.