Quote #84

There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not. You shall not deny the Stranger.

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  2. They constantly try to escape From the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good. But …
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  5. And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent godless people: Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.'
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  7. I have given you the power of choice, and you only alternate Between futile speculation and unconsidered action.
  8. What have we to do but stand with empty hands and palms turned upwards in an age which advances progressively backwards?

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