In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. Essays and Letters
I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction. Travels with Charley: In Search of America
What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same? The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
What relationship could exist between the lives of the fools and healthy rabble who were well, who slept well, who performed the sexual act well, who had never felt the wings of death on their face every moment—what relationship could exist between them and one like me who has arrived at the end of his rope and who knows that he will pass away gradually and tragically? The Blind Owl
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