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eleemosynary
That cry, emitted upon careful consideration, one might almost say upon mature consideration, was the newborn’s decision against love and nevertheless for life. Under the circumstances, the latter was possible only without the former, and had the child demanded both, it would doubtless have abruptly come to a grisly end.
He was very suspicious of inventions, for they always meant that some rule would have to be broken.
Man’s misfortune stems from the fact that he does not want to stay in the room where he belongs.
Nothing is supposed to be right anymore, suddenly everything ought to be different.
they’ve finally managed to infect the whole society with their perfidious fidgets, with their sheer delight in discontent and their unwillingness to be satisfied with anything in this world, in short, with the boundless chaos that reigns inside their own heads!
