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String comment = 'What is the best quote from a book you have ever read, seen, or heard?';
'And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.';
'>>23326032
Not sure about best, but my favorite is from The Tartar Steppe.
>What a terrible mistake, thought Drogo, perhaps everything is like that — we think there are beings like ourselves around us and instead there is nothing but ice and stones speaking a strange language; we are on the point of greeting a friend but our arm falls inert, the smile dies away because we are completely alone.';
'>>23326032
Impossible to say. There's too many.';
'"I am a stick."';
'>>23326032
Matthew 10.34-36
“Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s foes will be those of his own household.”';
'>>23326032
For thou art dust, and unto dust shalt thou return.';
'>>23326032
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.';
'>>23326032
>We are born into this time and must bravely follow the path to the destined end. There is no other way. Our duty is to hold on to the lost position, without hope, without rescue, like that Roman soldier whose bones were found in front of a door in Pompeii, who, during the eruption of Vesuvius, died at his post because they forgot to relieve him. That is greatness. That is what it means to be a thoroughbred. The honorable end is the one thing that can not be taken from a man.';
'>[…] There is no good reason why you should be concerned, but if your culture has not convinced you that there is, so much the worse for your culture.
Beyond Freedom and Dignity';
'>>23326032
1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.';
'>>23326032
>the right stars met in the house of scorpion
John Woods' translation of Doktor Faustus
mostly because I had wracked my brain the whole weekend trying to arrive at a similar sentiment, and then sat down and read it on the page and suddenly the distance between me and excellence in literature became clear';
'>>23326034
fpbp';
'>>23326032
And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.';
'>>23326032
>"Mercer,” Rick said.
>“I am your friend,” the old man said. “But you must go on as if I did not exist. Can you understand that?” He spread empty hands.
>“No,” Rick said. “I can’t understand that. I need help.”
>“How can I save you,” the old man said, “if I can’t save myself?” He smiled. “Don’t you see? There is no salvation.”
>“Then what’s this for?” Rick demanded. “What are you for?”
>“To show you,” Wilbur Mercer said, “that you aren’t alone. I am here with you and always will be. Go and do your task, even though you know it’s wrong.”
>“Why?” Rick said. “Why should I do it? I’ll quit my job and emigrate.”
>The old man said, “You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.”';
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>>23326063
>>23326117
>>23326139
Thank you anons, wonderful choices
I'm going with Romans 1:22-25
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.';
'>>23326034
fpbp. A more compact version; In the beginning was the decision and the decision was to Be.';
'>>23326070
where is this from?';
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