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| Our whole life is startilingly moral. Ther is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails. Walden Henry David Thoreau |
| How often is it the case, that, when impossibilities have come to pass, and dreams have condensed their misty substance into tangible realities, we find ourselves calm, and even coldly self-posessed, amid circumstances which it would have been a delerium of joy or agony to anticipate! Rappaccini's Daughter Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Then I saw my first enemy. A figure in brown uniform, wounded apparently, crouched twenty paces away in the middle of the batterred path, with his hands propped on the ground. I turned a corner, and we caught sight of each other. I saw him jump as I approached, and stare at me with gaping eyes, while I, with my face behind my pistol, stalked up to him slowly and coldly. A bloddy scene with no witnesses was about to happen. It was a relief to me, finally, to have the foe in front of me and within reach. I set the mouth of the pistol at the man's temple - he was too frightened to move - while my other fist grabbed hold of his tunic, feeling medals and badges of rank. An officer; he must have held some command post in these trenches. With a plaintive sound, he reached into his pocket, not to pull out a weapon, but a photograph which he held up to me. I saw him on it, surrounded by numerous family, all standing on a terrace. It was a plea from another world. Later, I thought it was blind chance that I let him go and plunged onward. That one man of all often appeared in my dreams. I hope that meant he got to see his homeland again. Storm of Steel Ernst Junger |
| There's never enough Time, to do all the Nothing you want. Calvin & Hobbes Bill Waterson |
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| I stopped our trishaw outside the Chalet and sait to Phuon, "Go in and find a table. I had better look after Pyle." That was my first instinct - to protect him. It never occured to me that there was greater need to protect myself. Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to gaurd ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. The Quiet American Graham Greene |
| So Father and I found out that Mother not only knew all the time it was goign to happen again, but that she already knew what she was going to do when it did, not only this time but the next one too, and the one after that and the one after that, until the day finally came when all the grieving about the earth, the rich and the poor too, whether they livedwith ten nigger servants in the fine big painted houses in town or whether they lived on and by seventy acres of not extra good land like us or whether all they owned was the right to sweat today for what they would eat tonight, could say, At least this there was some point to why we grieved. Shall Not Perish William Faulkner |
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