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“It is better to recognise that we are in darkness than to pretend that we can see the light.”

“The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”

“Laws are meaningless, child. There is nothing more important than love. And no law higher.”

“You know, there are easier ways to meet a guy than to run him over.”

“There is no better way to know us
Than as two wolves, come separately to a wood.”

“A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.”

“The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.”

“It is not often that the real world conjures worse than what we can imagine.”

“I have seen no more evident monstrosity and miracle in the world than myself.”

“It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.”

“There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.”

“The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.”

“Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.”

“I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.”

“War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.”

“Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.”

“To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast”

“A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.”

“But the adjectives change,” said Jimmy. “Nothing’s worse than last year’s adjectives.”