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41 " You dont have to forgive something you love. You forgive the ones you dont love. "
― James Jones , From Here to Eternity
42 " Jack Malloy was able to love the human race because he expected ahead-of-time to be let down by his friends and hurt by his enemies and betrayed by his leaders. He saw these things as natural reactions to be anticipated, instead of perfidies to be decried. "
43 " Nobody ever lied about being lonely. "
44 " They were like two philosophers starting from the same initial premise of life and each, by irrefutable argument, arriving at a diametrically opposite conclusion. Yet these two conclusions were like twin brothers of the same flesh and heritage and blood. "
45 " Warden had a theory about women: For years he had been asking them to sleep with him, the ones that interested him. "Will you go to bed with me?" and they were always shocked, even the rummy barflies. Of course, they always did, but that was only later, after he had fulfilled the proper requirements of approach. No woman ever said, "Why, yes, I'd like to go to bed with you." They couldn't do it. It wasnt in them to be that honest. "
46 " ever seen The Warden make toward him, or toward anybody else. It warmed all through him like a drink. It was worth three months in any Black Hole "
47 " Maybe that’s the reason we’re on this earth, to learn to love without hating. "
48 " I love to touch you,” Karen whispered, “to cuddle you, be fondled by you, love you. But it always leads to sex. You’ll never know the times I’ve wanted to touch you, but not done it, because it always leads to sex. "
49 " Two people who have meant as much to each other as we have dont fade out of each other’s lives,” Karen said. “Of course they dont,” Warden said. “They cant. "
50 " It was always unpleasant, moving like this; it always brought home to you the essential rootlessness of yourself and all men like you, always on the move, never really stopping anywhere, never really home. "
51 " Letters, like long-distance phone calls, could never convince him of the existence of another human far away existing in this same present he existed in. In reality, Violet did not exist until he saw her, then she began again where she had left off before. In-between she existed only in his mind, and how can you write a letter to your own imagination? "
52 " Just where is, he thought, the line that separates insanity? "
53 " Conviction and intensity are not the coin of truth, they alone can never buy it. "
54 " Whether maybe, strangest possibility of all, it was that love between a man and a woman happened to them all this way, was born full-grown from the copulation of a chance situation with a meaningless coincidence. "
55 " He was also wondering, as he dressed, at the humiliations men will suffer for a woman that they will not suffer for any other thing, even for their politics. "
56 " Sin is obviously relative to the man, and not a universal attribute. "
57 " There were times when Prewitt felt a special quality in himself, a strange unpleasant quality that seemed to force everyone he touched into making drastic decisions about their own lives, no wonder people did not like to be around him. "
58 " Maybe there were things in themselves men should not look at, just as there were things in the very deep bottom of the sea that it was better that men did not know about. "
59 " once in a dream somewhere, sometime, someplace, they had managed for a moment to touch another human soul and understand it. "
60 " There was a cool calm solace of protection in the unreasoning rage. But his mind was functioning enough to recognize it was a false protection. "