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They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything!
no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.
is seldom that you meet men whose souls, steeled in the impenetrable armour of resolution, are ready to fight a losing battle to the last;
such a beautiful greed of adventures that are their own and only reward.
It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts.
he stood on the brink of a vast obscurity, like a lonely figure by the shore of a sombre and hopeless ocean.
Man is amazing, but he is not a masterpiece,’
You take a different view of your actions when you come to understand, when you are made to understand every day that your existence is necessary—you see, absolutely necessary—to another person.
