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Date created: April 2010

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Birthdate June 22, 1952

Zodiac Libra

Location Berkhampsted, United Kingdom

Country England

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Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim

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People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, evil--or else an absolute ignorance.

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Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling.

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He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.

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The Church is in the world, it is part of the suffering in the world, and though Christ condemned the disciple who struck off the ear of the high priest's servant, our hearts go out in sympathy to all who are moved to violence by the suffering of others. The Church condemns violence, but it condemns indifference more harshly. Violence can be the expression of love, indifference never. One is an imperfection of charity, the other the perfection of egoism.

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There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.

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Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the dying moan of the sirens continued for a moment or two to vibrate within the ear. It seemed to Scobie later that this was the ultimate border he had reached in happiness: being in darkness, alone, with the rain falling, without love or pity.

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Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.

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If only it were possible to love without injury

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Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.

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I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil.

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