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He wept on account of his helplessness, his terrible loneliness, the cruelty of man, the cruelty of God, and the absence of God.


“He was surprised to discover that when rich people were starving they looked so much like the poor”
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“He was filled with horror at the thought of what a child becomes, and what the dead must feel watching the change from innocence to guilt and powerless to stop it”
― The Ministry of Fear
― The Ministry of Fear

“For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it.”
― Alias Grace
― Alias Grace

“I have not let myself be stultified by science, whose highest goal is to furnish a `waiting room', which it would be best to tear down.”
― The Golem
― The Golem

“I applaud the courage of he who accepts each and every one of the laws of a game he did not invent and was not asked if he wanted to play”
― A Brief Life
― A Brief Life

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