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The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.
We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of our creation.
We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings ...
There are sordid souls that eat and drink and breed and die, and imagine they have lived.
Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.
Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away the heaped-up wrongs of centuries; but they languish at times, while the love of self works on ceaselessly, unwearyingly,burrowing always at the very root of life, and heaping up fresh wrongs for other centuries to sweep away.
I think I must write a book. It has been my cherished dream and I feel an influence that I cannot resist calling me to the task.
