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“You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?”
― The Old Man and the Sea
― The Old Man and the Sea
“It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.”
― The Old Man and the Sea
― The Old Man and the Sea
“Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange
“Future and past blurred; what he had already experienced and what he would eventually experience blended so that nothing remained but the moment.”
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“It’s his father’s fault,” she said unemotionally. “The Yozo we knew was so easy-going and amusing, and if only he hadn’t drunk—no, even though he did drink—he was a good boy, an angel.”
― No Longer Human
― No Longer Human
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