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“STARING INTO THE ABYSS by Richard Thomas is an outstanding book, a grim tapestry of broken lives and shattered dreams, of dark fantasies and dark reflections. It's one of the better single-author collections I've had the pleasure to read in recent years, and as such, gets my highest recommendation. It's also a fine testament to a talent I suspect we are going to be hearing a lot more from, and soon.”

“If e'er I win a parting token, 'Tis something that has lost its power-- A chain that has been used and broken, A ruin'd glove, a faded flower; Something that makes my pleasure less, Something that means--forgetfulness.”

Ifs Mean Has Beens Used Winning Lost Pleasure Flower Broken Ruins Chains Parting Gloves Forgetfulness Faded Tokens

Author:Nathaniel Parker Willis

“The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first take the sledge-hammer of the Law in His fists and smash the beast of self-righteousness and its brood of self-confidence, self wisdom, and self-help. When the conscience has been thoroughly frightened by the Law it welcomes the Gospel of grace with its message of a Savior Who came-not to break the bruised reed nor to quench the smoking flax-but to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, and to grant forgiveness of sins to all the captives.”

“Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins that may buy you just a moment of pleasure, But then drag you for days like a broken man behind a farting camel.”

Men May Moments Pleasure Behinds Broken Drag Coins Camels Counterfeit Broken Man

Author:Hafez

“Many a man has a kind of a kaleidoscope, where the bits of broken glass are his own merits and fortunes; and they fall into harmonious arrangements, and delight him, often most mischievously and to his ultimate detriment; but they are a present pleasure.”

Men Kind Fall Bits Pleasure Broken Ultimate Fortune Glasses Delight Merit Arrangements Harmonious Kaleidoscope Broken Glass

Book:Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon

Source: Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon

“Even though I don't have any larger spiritual or ideological system, there is some logic in concert with a huge number of beautiful, disconcerting, screwed-up variables that results in a certain visual pleasure in violent things. Like a broken egg yolk can be the most violent thing I've seen all day, if I'm in the right mood. But also tons of trash in the woods or a burned-up trailer park can also come across as especially violent.”

“Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.”

Ifs Kind Sex Pleasure Magic Movement Broken Demand Abandon Spells Caress Broken Promises Magic Words

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“Even at the time—twenty years old—I said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a tramp, than to sit at an office desk ten hours a day. There is no particular daring in this vow, but I have not broken it and shall not do so. The wisdom of my grandfathers sat in my head: we are born for the pleasure of work, fighting, love, we are born for that and nothing else. (Guy de Maupassant)”

Years Said Guy Fighting Born Hours Pleasure Particular Broken Ten Office Twenties Prison Hungry Sat Daring Grandfather Desks Vow My Grandfather Tramps Fighting For Love Office Desk

Author:Isaac Babel

“The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.”

Ifs Humans Heart Dream Pleasure Secret Silence Broken Treasure Charm Broken Heart Human Heart Broken Promises Hidden Treasure Hopes In Life

Book:Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Source: Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

“Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister, and mother, were gained, and lost, in that one moment. Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain.”

Long Moments Character Pain Joy Mother Father Lost Pleasure Grief Tears Sweet Broken Sacred Embrace Bitter Cups Solemn Recollection Orphan Sisters And Mothers Joy And Grief

Book:Oliver Twist

Source: Oliver Twist

“In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry told himself. You will still get your fair share of years. Yet the quality of his life changed. Once you've been struck by violence, you acquire companions that never leave you entirely: Suspicion, Fear, Anxiety, Despair, Joylessness. The natural smile is taken from you and the natural pleasures you once enjoyed lose their appeal.”