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I suffered the misfortune that I sat down at a table and started drinking one glass of beer after another.

All along the line,' said the volunteer, pulling the blanket over him, 'everything in the army stinks of rottenness. Up till now the wide-eyed masses haven't woken up to it. With goggling eyes they...

But most of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any meaningful action.

The lieutenant's fooling around again with the telegraph girl at the station, said the corporal, after he had gone. He's been running after her for a fortnight and he's always frightfully furious when...

Sometimes I notice I'm demented, especially at sunset.

This is what opportunity brings with it. It's the self-determination of man. Every man in the course of his life eternal life undergoes countless changes and has to appear once in this worlds as a...

When Švejk subsequently described life in the lunatic asylum, he did so in exceptionally eulogistic terms: 'I really don't know why those loonies get so angry when they're kept there. You can crawl...

What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you squarely in the eye and said he would rather die than be killed in combat

I really don't know why the fools are angry when they hold them there. One can climb naked on the floor, go like jackal, rage and bite. If you could do it somewhere on the promenade, people would be...

And somewhere from the dim ages of history the truth dawned upon Europe that the morrow would obliterate the plans of today.

War demanded valour even in pilfering.

Preparations for the slaughter of mankind have always been made in the name of God or some supposed higher being which men have devised and created in their own imagination.

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive, to protect some aspect of myself that was now in constant retreat.

Those who boggle at strong language are cowards, because it is real life which is shocking them, and weaklings like that are the very people who cause most harm to culture and character. They would...

Free human dialogue, wandering wherever the agility of the mind allows, lies at the heart of education. If teachers do not have the time, the incentive, or the wit to produce that; if students are too...

Indeed, I hope to persuade you that the decline of a print-based epistemology and the accompanying rise of a television-based epistemology has had grave consequences for public life, that we are...

Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the ones who had taken it away--become afraid, more protective of their endangered interests, more...

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

After debauches and orgies there always follows the moral hangover.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. -Mark Nepo

People punish themselves-sometimes for years. But it's not always necessary. Forgiveness allows everybody to start again, not to be burdened with a whole lot of old business.

It's really rather easy to write eighth-century Chinese poetry," said Angus Lordie. "In English, of course. It requires little effort, I find.

...Everyone knows there's only one thing less welcome on a stage than a mime, and that's a clown, because everyone knows that clowns eat people.

{Mma Ramotswe thinking about what her father taught her…}...

I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything.

Believe me, there's nothing more brittle than human beauty. Encounter it. Savour it, by all means. Then watch how it turns to dust.

Jesus Christ was innocent too,' said Svejk, 'and all the same they crucified him. No one anywhere has ever worried about a man being innocent. Maul halten und weiter dienen {'Grin and bear it and get...

Small towns are sometimes like that; familiarity runs high, while regard for personal space is low, if nonexistent.

YOU DO NOT CHANGE PEOPLE BY SHOUTING AT THEM

But some of us cannot see love, she said to herself, even when it is there, right before us, asking us to invite it in.

Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slipped...

...this woman, moved by some private sorrow as much as the words being spoken, cried almost silently, unobserved by others, apart from Mma Ramotswe, who stretched out her hand and laid it on her...

I feel like I'm forgetting something. Vyrus. Clans. Zombies. Stay out of the sun. Don't get shot. Abandon your life. Drink blood to survive. No, guess that pretty much covers it.