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"Good! he wanted to cry out to her. Good! Because you only had to see it! I had to wear it!"
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"Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work."

"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."

"To 'live' is to realize that without the journey the destination is nothing more than a task rigorously completed rather than an experience riotously lived."

"I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think."

"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."

"Vanya soon found that America might be an exciting place to arrive, but living there could become, in time, as boring as anything else."

"Any experience can be transformed into something of value."

"What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant..."

"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."

"War did not make a killer of me, although for a time I killed men."
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"The wide corridor up the centre of E Block was floored with linoleum the colour of tired old limes, and so what was the Last Mile at other prisons was called the Green Mile at Cold Mountain."


"Every man or woman who loves [God], they hate Him too, because He's a hard God, a jealous God, He Is, what He Is, and in this world He's apt to repay service with pain while those who do evil ride over the roads in Cadillac cars. Even the joy of serving Him is a bitter joy."


"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."


"Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same from day to day or even moment to moment."


"For a woman a man will do many things that he'd turn his back on in an instant when alone; things he'd back away from, nine times out of ten, even when drunk adn with a bunch of his friends egging him on."


"The inmates made jokes about the chair, the way people always make jokes about things that frighten them but can't be gotten away from."


"Remember that "seeing is believing" puts the cart before the horse. Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery."


"This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know-by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there's still time."
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