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Sometimes, war being the unjust and drastic creature it is, those in whom he invested hopes took an arrow in the chest, the useless, by chance, thrived to irritate him another day.


Paul Hoffman


#death #drastic #hopes #paul-hoffman #sometimes

In such a beast as this..." (he means the army)"...it was the collective power that went, collapsing like a long-exhausted animal, at once falling under its own weight as much as that of its enemy. It was a collective death and not a matter of bravery or even strength, and once it was down it was finished as a battle.


Paul Hoffman


#battle #beast #bravery #collaps #collective

...the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.


Paul Hoffman


#arbell #believe #betrayal #cale #effects

Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that’s been in front of you all your life.


Paul Hoffman


#bosco #break #cale #clever #even

...this refinement and delicacy were what Cale adored; but Cale had been beaten into shape, hammered in dreadful fires of fear and pain. How could she be with him for long? A secret part of Arbell had been searching for some time for a way to leave her lover—although she was unaware of this, it is only fair to record. And so as Cale waited for her to save him while he worked out a way of saving her, she had already chosen the bitter but reasonable path of the good, of the many over the one...


Paul Hoffman


#arbell #bad #beat #bitter #cale

It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your soul.


Paul Hoffman


#cale #destruction #easier #easy #english-quote

Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.


Paul Hoffman


#cale #fourth #god #greatest #hand

The heart of a man is a small thing but it desires great matters. It is not big enough for a dog’s dinner but the whole world is not big enough for it. Man spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing. From the lamb he tears its guts and makes his harp resound; from the wolf his most deadly tooth to polish his pretty works of art; from the elephant his tusks to make a toy for his child.(...)And who will exterminate him who exterminates all others?


Paul Hoffman


#art #bosco #cale #child #clothes

We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.


Paul Hoffman


#baby #childe #cynic #cynicism #enemy

I've really only learned one thing in my life. One thing, in my heart, as deep as the deepest ocean in the world; no matter how bad it seems, it will always get better, ALWAYS.


Jamie Schoffman


#jamie-schoffman #not-all-out-of-love #life