The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.
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Zum Autor"My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?"
"We meet no ordinary people in our lives."
"No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond."
"But of course these conjectures as to why God does what He does are probably of no more value than my dog's ideas of what I am up to when I sit and read."
"I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process."
"I who know many present things by my art,' replied the Hermit with a smile, 'have yet little knowledge of things future. Therefore I do not know whether any man or woman or beast in the whole world will be alive when the sun sets tonight. But be of good hope. The damsel is likely to live as long as any her age."