“[Albert Camus]didn't have much hope that things would work out, but he wanted them to. Algeria had reached such a degree of violence that once such violence is created there's no more room for reflection. And there's no mediating position. If you look at Bosnia today, the Croats, Bosnians and Serbs, they've all created so much horror that one starts to wonder how these peoples can live together, after having done what they have. Already the violence has reached such a degree that everybody is living in hate, there's no possibility of reflection, no mediating position.”
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“Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won't put these futures back together. All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn't be enough to bring me back to zero.”
“We're operating this planet like a business in liquidation.”
“Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction.”
“There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.”
“I don't think I'll travel anymore. Travel is nothing but an inconvenience. There is always enough trouble where you are.”
“She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for her to become what she imagined herself to be.”
“There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands.”
“Please, sir, I want some more.”
“Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.”
“It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper that had been heated in a furnace, and were growing cold.”
“I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.”
“Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and keep a regular debtor and creditor account with heaven, which shall always show a floating balance in their own favour.”
“We came to the house, and it is an old house, full of great chimneys where wood is burnt on ancient dogs upon the hearth, and grim portraits (some of them with grim legends, too) lower distrustfully from the oaken panels of the walls.”
“It was a cold hard easterly morning when he latched the garden gate and turned away. The light snowfall which had feathered his schoolroom windows on the Thursday, still lingered in the air, and was falling white, while the wind blew black.”
“The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for ever floored.”
“Marley was dead: to begin with.”
“If anybody else says it's like old times, I'll jump out the window.”
“Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.”
“In reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism.”