"As you can imagine, those who had fallen this far had been so worn down by their tortures in the seven other hells that they no longer had the strength to cry out."

-- RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa

#Cry Quotes #Hell Quotes #Imagine Quotes

“The truth is that I've always been fascinated with wealth in America. To me, it's been about the American dream and the corruption of that dream.”
“My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances; weve become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.”
“I already read everything. I read poems and plays and novels and newspapers and comic books and magazines. I read tins in supermarkets and leaflets that come through the door, unsolicited mail. None of it lasts long and it doesn't give me answers. Reading too fast is not soothing.”

Source : Janice Galloway (1989). “The Trick is to Keep Breathing: A Novel”
“Whatever the theologians might say about heaven being in a state of union with God, I knew it consisted of an infinite library; and eternity was simply what enabled one to read uninterruptedly for ever.”
“God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?”
“The spirit in which one earns his daily bread means as much to his soul as the bread itself may mean to his body.”
“Prior to Valentinus, those who follow Valentinus had no existence. Nor did those from Marcion exist before Marcion. Nor, in short, did any of those malignant-minded people, whom I have listed above, have any existence previous to the initiators and inventors of their perversity.”
“Being a teenager these days is not for the faint of heart.”

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