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Do you have any idea how mad you sound?’ ‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity.’ (...) ‘And?’ ‘Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective in reason, how mean his facilities, how ugly in form and movement, in action how like a devil, in apprehension how like a cow. The beauty of the world? The paragon of animals? To me the quintessence of dust.


Paul Hoffman


#apprehension #beauty #bosco #cale #consider

...his soul (was) ringing like a well-struck bell. But it was a bell that rang with more than joy and adoration — there was the sound there too of anger and resentment. She would not look at him because she did not want to be in his presence. She hated him and he (how could he not?) hated her in return.


Paul Hoffman


#arbell #cale #god #hand #hate

Better a live dog than a dead lion.


Paul Hoffman


#death #dog #fight #god #hand

Until two days ago what had driven him was the will to survive: deep, animal, full of rage—but always part of him had not cared at all whether he lived or died. Now he did care, and very deeply, and so for the first time in a long time he was afraid. To love life is, of course, a wonderful thing, but not on this day of all days.


Paul Hoffman


#arbell #cale #care #day #dead

...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

... If the dead can come back to this earth and move unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you; in the garish day and in the darkest night—amidst your happiest scenes and gloomiest hours—always, always; and if there be a soft breeze upon your cheek, it shall be my breath; or if the cool air fans your throbbing temple, it shall be my spirit passing by.


Paul Hoffman


#always #arbell #around #breath #breeze

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






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