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No different to Abraham, to an Aztec, to a savage.
“Inevitable is lazy man's shorthand for 'I give up.'”
No one is guaranteed happiness. It's not a human right. It's a house you have to build yourself. Your family and friends can help, but they're all busy building their own houses too. You're just bitter because you built a shit house.”
“Mankind, a great blundering herd, killing when no killing was needed, slaving over work that required no bondage to complete. Man ambled about in a drunkard’s shuffle, still full of the noxious intoxicating vapours of his history and the animals he had been before his skin was pink and his imagination was large.
their own way. “Death is the blank canvas on which the brightest stars are painted, and they would be neither bright, nor stars, if there were not some contrast to weigh them against.
“Time, like death, is the limitation on all things. But unlike death, it is little more than illusion. All events have happened, are happening, and will happen.
“Choice is the capability of a man to change his own fate if he so desires. But little does he ever. It is the one thing which marks him apart from the wind and the crops and the animals.
“Courage isn't the absence of fear but the mastery of it.”
“Some say children are born with the most miraculous of powers which they in time learn to forget, replaced with everyday concerns.
With a quarter of the bottle gone now the night takes on a velvet edge.
