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We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.
We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.
Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house.
Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house.
Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.
Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.
One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a read more
One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) "He has St. Vitus's dance," "He has nerve fever," "He has dropsy," "He has ague," since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names.
The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.
The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.
It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice; there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, read more
It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice; there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.
To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or read more
To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
