I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.
Saints rarely have friends; they are usually hated and derided, for they love and love is always rejected by hard-hearted men....saints do not advertise themselves; good men do not seek out a name in the world....the saints did what they did almost in stealth, asking nothing except that men love God.
But what was a body? Dust, dung, urine, itches. It was the light within which was important, and it was not significant if that light endured after death, or if the soul was blinded eternally in the endless night of the suspired flesh.
The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.
'He is very ugly,' said his mother.
I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation
. . . a statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.
The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls
One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India
I have been the victim of heartless malice.
My dreams are all follies.
I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.
The feeble soul merely whines and complains.
In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
Despair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile.
If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?
I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul
Honest men live on charity in their age; the almshouses are full of men who never stole a copper penny. Honest men are the fools and the saints.
I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.
It is not always wise to appear singular.
Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it
My literary success meant nothing to me
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