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• Women age early, and their mistake is not knowing where to hide all the time that lies behind them so that no one sees it. What are they to do, devour it like the umbilical cords of their children? Hell and damnation!

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Children, Mistake, Women

  Elfriede Jelinek, Michael Hulse (1992). “Lust”, Profile Books

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• I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows

  Leonard Cohen

  Rainbow, Prison, Broke

  Song: The Old Revolution, Album: Songs From A Room, 1969

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• City life is no life for a country man; for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself.

  Stephen King

  Country, Men, Cities

  Stephen King (2011). “Full Dark, No Stars”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

  Charles Bukowski

  Betrayal, Males, Female

  "Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life". Book by Howard Sounes, 1998.

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• Shall we keep men in a fool's paradise? Shall we lull them into soft slumbers from which they will awake in hell? Are we to become helpers of their damnation by our smooth speeches? In the name of God, we will not!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Names, Slumber

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2009). “Sermons on the Last Days”, p.97, Hendrickson Publishers

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• There is not eternal damnation, the only rewards and punishments are right here in this world.

  Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz

  Punishment, World, Rewards

  Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (1989). “The Madman and the Nun & The Crazy Locomotive: Three Plays, Including The Water Hen”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Some people have enough dust on their bibles to write damnation on it.

  Adrian Rogers

  Writing, Dust, People

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• They have no idea that it can be done by a bus driver, a field hand, or a fry cook. They have no idea where it comes from. It comes from pain, damnation and impossibility. The blow to the soul of the gut. It comes from getting burned and seared and slugged. It comes from...new and awful places and the same old places.

  Charles Bukowski

  Pain, Blow, Hands

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• What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?

  John Donne

  Marriage, Sight, Tickling

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.320, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown -- but the present is real, and your opportunities are now. You must see these opportunities; they must be real for you. The catch is that they can't seem real if your mind is buried in past failures, if you keep reliving old mistakes, old guilts, old tragedies. Fight your way above the many inevitable Traumatizations of your ego, escape damnation by the past, and look to the opportunities of the present. I don't mean some vague moment in the present -- next week or next month, perhaps. I mean today, this minute.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Real, Mistake, Mean

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• Many [hooligans] discover to their shame that they have scruples; they have roots and, greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope. The fathers superior of the order do not try to influence their children in Satan; they merely shake their heads in sorrow. They know that the apostate must work out his own damnation.

  Quentin Crisp

  Children, Father, Order

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 26, 1968.

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• There's a little book I'm thinking of writing - "Swan Song" is what I shall call it. The song of the dying. And my book will be incense burnt at the deathbed of this society, damned with the damnation of its own impotence.

  Maxim Gorky

  Song, Book, Writing

  "Foma Gordeyev". Book by Maxim Gorky, 1899.

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• The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Devil, Way

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• Human society is born in the shadow of religious fear, and in that stage the suppression of heresy is a sacred social duty. Then comes the rise of a priesthood, and the independent thinker is met with punishment in this world and the threat of eternal damnation hereafter. Even today it is from the religious side that the greatest danger to freedom of thought comes. Religion is the last thing that man will civilise.

  Chapman Cohen

  Religious, Independent, Men

  "The Freethinker", Vol. 84, G.W. Foote,(p. 215), 1964.

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• Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious and complex of realities to simple - even simplistic - terms. Yes, scripture speaks of fire and damnation and eternal bliss, but the Bible is the product of human hands and hearts, and much of the imagery is allegorical, not meteorological.

  Jon Meacham

  Heart, Simple, Reality

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• And I have to tell you, as tough as farming is, the idea of farming when you’re losing money year after year... that’s not life even, that’s like death. That’s eternal damnation.

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  Years, Ideas, Losing

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2008). “The Off Season”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• See, when you lie to me it hurts," Rixon said, swiping an imaginary tear. "I thought we had something special. I thought our joint eternal sentences of damnation were our bond.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Hurt, Lying, Special

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.1159, Simon and Schuster

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• You are damned, and we wish to share your damnation.

  Ayn Rand

  Wish, Share

  Ayn Rand (2012). “Study Guide: Anthem (Study Gudie and Book)”, p.90, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I go to a Catholic school and I'm telling you: invisibility = eternal damnation. You can take it to the bank.

  Patrick Carman

  School, Catholic, Invisibility

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• If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?

  Aberjhani

  Love, Relationship, Romantic

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• I have sinned enough against the world. Teaching magic to a kender would ensure my damnation. —Raistlin Majere

  Margaret Weis

  Teaching, Magic, World

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• She was the temptress who had ensnared the first man, and who still continued her work at damnation; she was the being who is feeble, dangerous, mysteriously troubling. And even more than her body of perdition, he hated her loving soul.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Men, Soul, Body

  Guy de Maupassant (1923). “The Works of Guy de Maupassant”

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• Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation.

  Francine Rivers

  Restoration, Comfort, Repentance

  Francine Rivers (1995). “As Sure as the Dawn”, p.140, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• You are out of control, Rand al'Thor,' she declared. I do what must be done,' he said, speaking now from the shadows. He sounded exhausted. ... I hate what you just did, Rand,' Nynaeve snarled. 'No, "Hate" isn't strong enough. I loathe what you've done. What has happened to you?' Test him!' Rand whispered, voice dangerous. 'Before condemning me, let us first determine if my sins have achieved anything beyond my own damnation.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Strong, Hate, Voice

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• ...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain.

  Jack London

  Gambling, Weakness, Made

  Jack London (2015). “Jack London The Dover Reader”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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