But there is a fatality…which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt…the spot where some great and marked event has given the color to their lifetime; and still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.
A sad fact about people. Kind of like slowing down to see a car wreck I guess. Or maybe it’s something stronger than just a morbid urge? The Scarlet Letter p.76

To the untrue man, the whole universe is false – it is impalpable – it shrinks to nothing within his grasp.
Or as Heesoon says, “It kill-a your soul.” The Scarlet Letter p.142

No civilization without social stability. No social stability without individual stability.
Just look at the rise of the Nazi empire. A Brave New World p.28

If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
So that’s why I have all this time to do a web page. A Brave New World p.92

Passionate love -- sexual love -- is the greatest pleasure one can experience. It dispels sadness. It banishes pain. It's like the finest wine, like the morning of a day of perfect weather, like the most beautiful music, like riding free forever. And it's like none of those things.
The Moon and the Sun Ch.19 p.305

We have one way to make a child, a thousand ways to love.
The Moon and the Sun Ch.21 p.328

I never argue about religion...but I may, on occasion, make a statement of common sense.
The Moon and the Sun Ch.21 p.334

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