His brain was in one of those states that are both violent and yet frighteningly calm, in which thought runs so deep it blots out reality. You no longer see the objects around you, yet you can see the shapes in your mind as thought they are outside your body.
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Zum Autor"How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said."
"Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise."
"A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas."
"It is God who makes woman beautiful it is the devil who makes her pretty."
"They are les misérables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most fallen who have most need of charity?"
"Sin as little as possible-that is the law of mankind. Not to sin at all is the dream of the angel. All earthly things are subject to sin. Sin is like gravity."