He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
You cannot love without intuition.
I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved their enemies. It was their friends they preserved for pain and vacuity.
I couldn't resist the temptation to tease Pyle - it is, after all, the weapon of weakness and I was weak.
I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with a fable of the changeless and the permanent. Death was far more certain than God, and with death there would be no longer the possibility of love dying.
I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.
I was an only child. It's a great disadvantage being an only child.
I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.
If you live in a place for long you cease to read about it.
Innocence is a kind of insanity
One forgets so quickly one's own youth…
Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
Sooner or later...one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
Death was far more certain than God.
They killed him because he was too innocent to live. He was young and ignorant and silly and he got involved. He had no more of a notion than any of you what the whole affair's about . . .
Even though my reason wanted the state of death, I was afraid like a virgin of the act.
Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?
From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year...death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever.
Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn't we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that's why men have invented God - a being capable of understanding.
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