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• There are no words and there is no singing, but the music has a voice. It is an old voice and a deep voice, like the stump of a sweet cigar or a shoe with a hole. It is a voice that has lived and lives, with sorrow and shame, ecstasy and bliss, joy and pain, redemption and damnation. It is a voice with love and without love. I like the voice, and though I can't talk to it, I like the way it talks to me. It says it is all the same, Young Man. Take it and let it be.

  James Frey

  Sweet, Pain, Men

  James Frey (2003). “A Million Little Pieces”

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• What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?

  Charles Baudelaire

  Delight, Matter, Infinity

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• The dreams of the left are always beautiful - the imagining of a better world, the damnation of the present one. This faith, this luminescent anger - these are worthy of being called human. These are the Beautiful that an age produces.

  Tony Kushner

  Beautiful, Dream, Age

  Tony Kushner (1994). “A Bright Room Called Day”, p.106, Theatre Communications Group

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• There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it. His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. When he reads a novel, he wants either his sense tormented or his spirits raised. He wants to be transported, instantly, either to mock damnation or a mock innocence.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Fall, Evil, Restoration

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• Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei, and she guessed it was the Pendulum's business. A moment later the couple went off -- he, trained on some textbook that had blunted his capacity for wonder, she, inert and insensitive to the thrill of the infinite, both oblivious of the awesomeness of their encounter -- their first and last encounter -- with the One, the Ein-Sof, the Ineffable. How could you fail to kneel down before this altar of certitude?

  Umberto Eco

  Couple, Encounters, Cosmos

  "Foucault's Pendulum". Book by Umberto Eco, 2007.

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• Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.

  Graham Greene

  Heart, Men, Practice

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Portable Graham Greene”

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• Growing up under the heavy hand of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, it was drummed into me that attending weekly mass was not an option. It was a must to avoid eternal damnation, which was not a prospect filled with many positives. Hell fire was perpetual, and no parole would be offered.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Growing Up, School, Fire

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• So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important— self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the eyes.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Eye, Pride, Self

  Brandon Sanderson (2007). “Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition”, p.5, Macmillan

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• As I was walking in the fields, the thought came over me with almost overwhelming power, that every one of my flock must soon be in heaven or hell. Oh how I wished that I had a tongue like thunder, that I might make all hear; or that I had a frame like iron, that I might visit every one and say, Escape for thy life! Ah sinner! You little know how I fear that you will lay the blame of your damnation at my door.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Doors, Iron, Heaven

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1874). “Memoir and Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee”

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• There is nothing for her beyond those gates," Gavriel said. "Do you think to bring her along like a talisman to remind you of your humanity? Or do you think sharing your damnation will lighten the burden of it?

  Holly Black

  Thinking, Humanity, Burden

  Holly Black (2013). “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, p.50, Hachette UK

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• Poor Martin. Geek or no, committing his soul to eternal damnation was a helluva price to pay for six minutes.

  Richelle Mead

  Soul, Pay, Six

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Blues”, p.14, Zebra Books

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• Greed and desire Not peace, but fire Coveting creation Created damnation Pulled alongside A gate thrown too wide Now our home calls And darkness fall "I rubbed my temples, feeling a headache coming on."A for effort, ladies, but F for clarity. You do realise that your wierd poem things never explain anything".

  Kiersten White

  Fall, Home, Fire

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• Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.

  Rebecca West

  Civilization, Giving, Justice

  1912 'The Personal Service Association: Work for Idle Hands to Do', in The Clarion,13 Dec.

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• And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Believe, Men, Alive

  Arthur Rimbaud (1994). “A Season in Hell and Other Poems”, Anvil PressPoetry Limited

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• EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the damnation of our neighbors.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sarcastic, Religious, Religion

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.57, 谷月社

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• Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.

  Victor Hugo

  Peace, Discovery, Civilization

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• I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. And Mother. And God.

  Johnny Cash

  Love, Mother, Song

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• From the moment of my birth, the angels of anxiety, worry, and death stood at my side, followed me out when I played, followed me in the sun of springtime and in the glories of summer. They stood at my side in the evening when I closed my eyes, and intimidated me with death, hell, and eternal damnation.

  Edvard Munch

  Summer, Eye, Angel

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• Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.

  Saint Augustine

  Punishment, Medicine, Suffering

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• God is almighty to pardon, but He will not use His power for a shameless sinner. He is able to save and help in time of need, but if you have not repented, how can you expect His aid? The same power God expends on the believer's salvation will be spent on your damnation, for He has bound Himself under oath to destroy every impenitent soul.

  William Gurnall

  Judgement, Soul, Needs

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• For he who touches the Body of Christ unworthily receives his damnation.

  Peter Chrysologus

  Body, Christ, Sacraments

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• God is angry with man. Unless we believe and repent we shall all be damned. It is impossible, indeed, for its advocates even to say this without instantly contradicting themselves. Their doctrine frightens them. They explain in various ways that a great many people will be saved without believing, and that eternal damnation is not eternal nor damnation.

  Leslie Stephen

  Believe, Men, People

  Sir Leslie Stephen (1903). “An Agnostic's Apology, and Other Essays”

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• The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.

  Saint Augustine

  Use, Salvation, Sacraments

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• even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.

  Leonard Cohen

  Rainbow

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

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• Goddamn you," Jacob said. "There's no damnation, Jacob. No Heaven but the forest and no God but the hive.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Heaven, Forests, Jacob

  Robert Charles Wilson (2000). “The Perseids and Other Stories”, p.26, Macmillan

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