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“Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here I am in hell.”

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“Many governments employ torture but this was the first time that the element of Saturnalia and pornography in the process had been made so clear to me. If you care to imagine what any inadequate or cruel man might do, given unlimited power over a woman, then anything that you can bring yourself to suspect was what became routine in ESMA, the Navy Mechanics School that became the headquarters of the business. I talked to Dr. Emilio Mignone, a distinguished physician whose daughter Monica had disappeared into the precincts of that hellish place. What do you find to say to a doctor and a humanitarian who has been gutted by the image of a starving rat being introduced to his daughter's genitalia? Like hell itself the school was endorsed and blessed by priests, in case any stray consciences needed to be stilled.”

Hell Torture Sexual Abuse Argentina Sadism Esma

Book:Hitch 22: A Memoir

Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir

“Some people need Hell. If you’re the type of guy who sees a hooker in an alleyway and instinctively thinks, “Hey, now there’s something I could rape and kill without any consequences,” then the concept of Hell might really keep you out of trouble.”

Hell

Book:The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee

Source: The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee

“There is no miserable place waiting for you, no hell realm, sitting and waiting like Alaska—waiting to turn you into ice cream. But whatever you call it—hell or the suffering realms—it is something that you enter by creating a world of neurotic fantasy and believing it to be real. It sounds simple, but that's exactly what happens.”

Hell Buddhism Hell On Earth Tibetan Buddhism

Book:Becoming Vajrasattva

Source: Becoming Vajrasattva

“Hell was grey. Dim and lifeless... I felt numb and in pain at the same time and that was not supposed to happen in heaven. But you would think that with all the queers they had sent here since time began, hell would have a better decorating job.”

Humor Hell Decorating

Book:Death by the Riverside

Source: Death by the Riverside

“You know I'd follow you anywhere. Even if it's straight to Hell.”

Love Hell Nick Kelly

Book:Crash & Burn

Source: Crash & Burn

“Dostoyevsky described hell as perhaps nothing more than a room with a chair in it. This room has several chairs. A young man sits in one.”

Hell Comedy Dostoevsky

Book:Withnail and I: the Original Screenplay

Source: Withnail and I: the Original Screenplay

“At the end of medicine is dope; at the end of life is death; at the end of man may be the Hell which arrives from the vanities of the mind.”

Life Hell

Author:Norman Mailer

“What do you think the Order is going to do?" he asks. "Help us open a door to Hell, if we're lucky," I reply. Lucky. Ha ha. The irony.”

Humor Order Hell Lucky Irony Help

Book:Girl of Nightmares

Source: Girl of Nightmares

“A love story can never be about full possession. The happy marriage, the requited love, the desire that never dims--these are lucky eventualites but they aren't love stories. Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on matrimonial boredom and at least one cold heart. Love stories, nearly without exception, give love a bad name. We value love not because it's stronger than death but because it's weaker. Say what you want about love: death will finish it. You will not go on loving in the grave, not in any physical way that will at all resemble love as we know it on earth. The perishable nature of love is what gives love its importance in our lives. If it were endless, if it were on tap, love wouldn't hit us the way it does. And we certainly wouldn't write about it.”

Love

Book:My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro

Source: My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro

“Man, by thinking, can bring into his experience whatsoever he desires--if he thinks correctly, and becomes a living embodiment of his thoughts. This is not done by holding thoughts but by knowing the Truth.”

Thinking Truth Desire

Author:Ernest Holmes

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