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“Everything deserved his fury. No one had helped him or cared about his fate. No one had saved him. He would save himself or…

— T.C. Southwell

“He was incapable of nursing an injustice which would cost him good living to repay, an evil thought which it would undo him to…

— Christina Stead

“He had no cause for self-reproach on the score of neglect, or want of thought, for he had been devoted to her service; and…

— Charles Dickens

“If he couldn’t go back, he would just have to do things differently going forward. He felt how infinitely safer and more sound this…

— Lev Grossman

“He never did rid himself of the feeling that he had been denied his rightful place. It kept him from being good-natured, and made…

— Warren Eyster

“Everything now had been taken from him, his striving after goodness, his hopes, his pride, even that human revenge upon fate--to destroy his own…

— Tanith Lee

“He had lost the capacity of personal suffering, or he thought he had, and could only be hurt truly by what happened to others.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“What he had was a sense that few things mattered much. That few people are to be feared. And so he now faced all…

— Dave Eggers

“it seemed to him that no matter what evils a man had committed, making him suffer purely for the sake of suffering was pointless.…

— Kim Fielding

“But that was not all. He foresaw a time when men, exultant in the technique of homicide, would rage so hotly over the world…

— James Hilton

“ What responsibility are you avoiding... He wasn't avoiding responsibility... Though there was one thing he clung to. An excuse, perhaps, like the dead…

— Brandon Sanderson

“He felt people were never intentionally beastly or malicious, but they were pompous and foolish; awful decisions were made by men divorced from their…

— Glen David Gold