...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...
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I have a message for your daughter,” said Cale. “I am bound to her with cables that not even God can break. One day, if there is a soft breeze on her cheek, it may be my breath; one night, if the cool wind plays with her hair, it may be my shadow passing by.”
And with this terrible threat he faced forward and the procession started once more. In less than a minute they were gone. In her shady room Arbell Swan-Neck stood white and cold as alabaster.
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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?
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air.
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Many are called, few are chosen.
Paul HoffmanStichwörter: life power god death tomas paul last divine four little chosen hand many redeemer cale hoffman laft bosco called few
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 HoffmanStichwörter: life god smart clever tomas bones paul last four scary left hand terrible break cale hoffman bosco even front-of-you
...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.
Paul HoffmanStichwörter: life pain love children god heart child things true kill kids damaged paul last four never forever undone left hand done ever damage hoffman forty-nine
Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.
Paul HoffmanStichwörter: man men god soul human self-pity respect universal tomas paul pity last left hand greatest cale hoffman acids fourth solvation solvent
Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.
Paul HoffmanStichwörter: man men god soul human self-pity respect universal tomas paul pity last feel four left hand sorry greatest cale hoffman acids solvation solvent
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 HoffmanStichwörter: pain love reason man world easy people god soul heart destruction quote tomas understand paul last four price left hand frase against englishman easier prefer scratch cale finger hoffman english-quote gash
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