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“Everyone living is doomed”

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Taylor Caldwell

Taylor Caldwell was an American novelist known for her historical novels and biographies. Her works are characterized by deep character development and rich historical backgrounds. Caldwell was born on September 7, 1900, and died on August 30, 1985. more

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“All this had happened before, perhaps a million times, and because of this was doomed. There was no ordinary future any more, only this ecstatic tormented terrified present. The future had passed through the present like a sword. We were already, even eye to eye and lip to lip, deep in the horrors to come.”

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Book:The Black Prince

Source: The Black Prince

“Oh, all right, perhaps it wasn't all your fault, I was just doomed from the start.”

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“You see, deep in their hearts they’re convinced that a colonization that doesn't end in a seditious movement and massacres is not a successful colonization. Perhaps they’re right, in a way.”

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Book:The Roots of Heaven

Source: The Roots of Heaven

“If you are doomed to devour yourself, nothing can keep you from it: a trifle will impel you as much as a tragedy. Resign yourself to erosion at all times: your fate wills it so.”

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Book:The Trouble with Being Born

Source: The Trouble with Being Born

“The sad truth is that we have to persist in this doomed world that we have created.”

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Book:2017: Our Summer of Reunions: Braai Seasons with Howl Gang (Howl Gang Legend)

Source: 2017: Our Summer of Reunions: Braai Seasons with Howl Gang (Howl Gang Legend)

“I haven't known up 'till now why I do not want to go. But now I do know. [...] Because this is the ship that they say is unsinkable,' she replied, 'and that is flying in the face of the Almighty. That ship will never reach the other side.”

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Book:A Girl Aboard the Titanic: The Remarkable Memoir of Eva Hart, a 7-year-old Survivor of the Titanic Disaster

Source: A Girl Aboard the Titanic: The Remarkable Memoir of Eva Hart, a 7-year-old Survivor of the Titanic Disaster

“We’re thinking beings, Inspector. And any system, any government, or any philosophy that doesn’t encourage thought is doomed. Stagnation. Regression. Extinction.”

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Book:A Pause in the Perpetual Rotation

Source: A Pause in the Perpetual Rotation

“You know we are doomed anyway, right? Beg your pardon? No matter what we do, what we archive, what status we have, how much material wealth we acquire, we all die. Some of us in terrible pain whilst we do so… Life is inherently cruel, there is no other way of putting it.”

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Book:2018: Our Summer of Creeping Boredom and Beautiful Shimmering

Source: 2018: Our Summer of Creeping Boredom and Beautiful Shimmering

“A small, decorative dagger was embedded in her stomach. She was doomed. Even still, Hawk could not leave her.”

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Book:Children of the Dead City

Source: Children of the Dead City

“I can’t think about failure. If I do, I’ll be doomed from the start.”

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Book:Cold-Hearted Rake

Source: Cold-Hearted Rake