To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.
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It's not that life is so short, it's just that you're dead for so long.
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Death-the last voyage, the longest and the best.
Death-the last voyage, the longest and the best.
He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.
He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.
At least when you are dead you will know what silence truly sounds like.
At least when you are dead you will know what silence truly sounds like.
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Everybody dies. Not everybody ever really lives.
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I believe that everything you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer for it. But in my heart, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven.
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It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.
Most people would rather die than think;
in fact, they do so.
Most people would rather die than think;
in fact, they do so.
