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81 " CVIII. "
― George Saunders , Lincoln in the Bardo
82 " Had been grandmothers, tolerant and frank, recipients of certain dark secrets, who, by the quality of their unjudging listening, granted tacit forgiveness, and thus let in the sun. "
83 " At the core of each lay suffering; our eventual end, the many losses we must experience on the way to that end. "
84 " How could we have been otherwise? Or, being that way, have done otherwise? We were that way, at that time, and had been led to that place, not by any innate evil in ourselves, but by the state of our cognition and our experience up until that moment. "
85 " At the core of each lay suffering; our eventual end, the many losses we must experience on the way to that endWe must try to see one another in this way.As suffering, limited beings--Perennially outmatched by circumstance, inadequately endowed with compensatory graces. "
86 " Though on the surface it seemed every person was different, this was not true.At the core of each lay suffering; our eventual end, the many losses we must experience on the way to that end.We must try to see one another in this way.As suffering, limited beings --Perennially outmatched by circumstance, inadequately endowed with compensatory graces. "
87 " (Cause yourself to have such thoughts, however harsh, as will lead you to do what you know to be right. "
88 " Then let me be happy no more. "
89 " If such things as goodness and brotherhood andredemption exist, and may be attained, these must sometimes require blood, vengeance, the squirming terror of the former perpetrator, the vanquishing of the heartless oppressor. "
90 " NONFICTION The Braindead Megaphone Congratulations, "
91 " There was no moon. "
92 " A train approaches a wall at a fatal rate of speed. You hold a switch in your hand, that accomplishes you know not what: do you throw it? Disaster is otherwise assured. It costs you nothing. Why not try? "
93 " A fat green crescent hung above the mad scene like a stolid judge, inured to all human folly. "
94 " So good. Dear little chap. Always knew the right thing to do. And would urge me to do it. I will do it now. Though it is hard. All gifts are temporary. I unwillingly surrender this one. And thank you for it. God. Or world. Whoever it was gave it to me, I humbly thank you, and pray that I did right by him, and may, as I go ahead, continue to do right by him. "
95 " At the core of each lay suffering; our eventual end; the many loses we must experience on the way to that end.We must try to see one another in this way. As suffering limited beings-Perennially outmatched by circumstance, inadequately endowed with compensatory graces. "
96 " None of that ever was, he said. And it never will be. "
97 " Oh, the pathos of it!—haggard, drawn into fixed lines of unutterable sadness, with a look of loneliness, as of a soul whose depth of sorrow and bitterness no human sympathy could ever reach. The impression I carried away was that I had seen, not so much the President of the United States, as the saddest man in the world. "
98 " Having never loved or been loved in that previous place, they were frozen here in a youthful state of perpetual emotional vacuity; interested only in freedom, profligacy, and high-jinks, railing against any limitation or commitment whatsoever. "
99 " The morning "
100 " This is the hardest trial of my life,” he confessed to the nurse, and in a spirit of rebellion this man, overweighted with care and sorrows, cried out: “Why is it? Why is it? "