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“I saw no reason why hell should not have, so to speak, visible branch establishments throughout the earth, and I have visited quite a few of them since.”
― Fifth Business
― Fifth Business
“Now, there are many millions in their sects and churches who feel the order, 'Do thou,' and throw their weight into obedience. And there are millions more who feel predestination in 'Thou shalt.' Nothing they may do can interfere with what will be. But 'Thou mayest'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He can choose his course and fight it through and win.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.”
― Sula
― Sula
“A town, a single town, and often small, and yet it was for this that Hector courted death, for this that the Spartan considered it the crown of “virtue” to “fall in the first ranks”, for this that the heroes of Salamis hurled themselves aboard the enemy ships with triumphal songs, and Socrates drank the hemlock in his reverence for the law.”
― Greek City and Its Institutions
― Greek City and Its Institutions
“For him it was a dark passage which led to nowhere, then to nowhere, then again to nowhere, once again to nowhere, always and for ever to nowhere, heavy on the elbows in the earth to nowhere, dark, never any end to nowhere, hung on all time always to unknown nowhere, this time and again always and again to nowhere, now not to be borne once again always and again to nowhere, now beyond all bearing up, up, up and into nowhere, suddenly, scaldingly, holdingly all nowhere gone
and time absolutely still and they were born there, time having stopped and he felt the earth move out and away from under them.”
― For Whom the Bell Tolls
and time absolutely still and they were born there, time having stopped and he felt the earth move out and away from under them.”
― For Whom the Bell Tolls
Marta’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Marta’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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