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The Last Four Things

Book by Paul Hoffman · 8 quotes · Cale, Hoffman, Last

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“Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.”

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“...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.”

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“Hypocrites,’ replied Cale, ‘I’ve come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are.”

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“Do you have any idea how mad you sound?’ ‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity.’ (...) ‘And?’ ‘Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective in reason, how mean his facilities, how ugly in form and movement, in action how like a devil, in apprehension how like a cow. The beauty of the world? The paragon of animals? To me the quintessence of dust.”

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“It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your soul.”

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“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air.”

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“Many are called, few are chosen.”

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“Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that’s been in front of you all your life.”

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