Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.
Alford was going to start this fast the same way he had started everything else, alone and uncertain
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Alford was going to start this fast the same way he had started everything else, alone and uncertain
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Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they were so like himself, because the worst of the was mirrored in them. He was the source of all that was bad in men and women, but he had none of the greatness, and none of the grace, of which human beings were capable, so that by only by corrupting them was his own pain diminished, and thus his existence made more tolerable.
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