Nature of man Quotes by Malcolm Lowry

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“Now you see what kind of creatures we are, Hugh. Eating things alive. That's what we do. How can you have much respect for mankind, or any belief in the social struggle?”

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“Night: and once again, the nightly grapple with death, the room shaking with daemonic orchestras, the snatches of fearful sleep, the voices outside the window, my name being continually repeated with scorn by imaginary parties arriving, the dark’s spinets. As if there were not enough real noises in these nights the color of grey hair. Not like the rending tumult…

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War is being declared to-morrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what…

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“He was safe here; this was the place he loved - sanctuary, the paradise of his despair.”

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What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of those…

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“The will of man is unconquerable. Even God cannot conquer it.”

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“and as they stood in silence before her, prayed again. "Nothing is altered and in spite of God's mercy I am still alone. Though my suffering seems senseless I am still in agony. There is no explanation of my life." Indeed there was not, nor was this what he'd meant to convey. "Please let Yvonne have her dream -- dream?…

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“Far above him a few white clouds were racing windily after a pale gibbous moon. Drink all morning, they said to him, drink all…

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Adiós," she added in Spanish, "I have no house only a shadow. But whenever you are in need of a shadow, my shadow is…

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“They were the cars at the fair that were whirling around her; no, they were the planets, while the sun stood, burning and spinning and guttering in the centre; here they came again, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto; but they were not planets, for it was not the merry-go-round at all, but the Ferris wheel, they…

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