Purgatory is hell with hope.
Yet the world between them was wide.
I seldom lie,' he said.
Experience was something it was difficult to avoid, though many people had managed to keep it to a minimum.
You had to make your choice between survival and efficiency, though in the long run survival was optimum efficiency, no matter how much time and effort it took.
Sam’s heart felt as if it were being licked by a cat.
The fortune of the man who sits also sits
First, humiliation, then humility, he would have said. And then comes humanity as a matter of course.
Actually, the situation was intolerable. But then it was surprising how much intolerableness a man could tolerate.
La sabiduria consiste en saber cuando evitar al perfeccion
Why should human beings have another chance at an afterlife? They were such miserable, conniving, self-deceiving, hypocritical wretches.
It’s not what a person says but what he does that reveals his true character.
The ideal was the light; the real, the shadow.
On returning to Germany, he rejoined Hitler, whom he believed to be the only man who could make Germany great again.
Look at those mountains. They go straight up, smooth as a politician denying he ever made a campaign promise.
Invincible ignorance always upset him, even though he knew he should just laugh at it.
The n'k did not want to be enlightened. They resented the truth as if it threatened them. In this respect, they are most like humans.
It’s this smoke from the burnin garbage, kid. Enough to make a maggot puke, ain’t it? Lookit! The smoke’s risin’ t‘ward the full moon like the ghosts a men so rotten even their spirits’re carryin the...
И защо човечеството получи своята Втора Възможност? - попита Колоп с тихия си сериозен глас.- Нима я заслужава? Не. С малко изключения хората са подло, нищожно, дребнаво, злобно, тесногръдо, невероятн...
What’s that got to do with it? Sam said. A humorist is a man whose soul is black, black, but who turns his curdles of darkness into explosions of light. But when the light dies out, the black returns.