While through the working of laws and customs there continues to exist a condition of social condemnation which artificially creates a human hell within civilization, and complicates with human...
What was this time in the young woman's gaze? Marius could not have said it. There was nothing and there was everything. It was a strange lightning....
Associate these two ideas, Paris and Childhood, which contain one all the fire, the other the entire dawn; Make these two sparks clash, and the result is a small being.
Nothing does not exist. Zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.
Finish this duel, amalgamate the pure idea with human reality, make the right in the fact peacefully and done in law, is the work of the wise.
Here man becomes a dragon. Being hungry, having thirst is the starting point, being Satan is the point of arrival.
In those moments of existence in which man has a need for pride because he needs love.
It has a pearl in the soul, innocence; And the pearls do not dissolve in the mud. {...} It is stirred in manure and leaves it covered with stars.
It was not the power to love what it lacked, but the possibility.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...
fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all...
the full fury of his storming countenance with its rugged overhang of gullied forehead and huge crag...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...