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And without fear the lawless roads Ran wrong through all the land.

The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man.

I have observed in foolish awe
The dateless mid-days of the law
And seen indifferent justice done
By everyone on everyone.

Sometimes we think of the nations lying asleep,
Curled blindly in impenetrable sorrow,
And then the thought confounds us with its strangeness.

Packed in my skin from head to toe is one I know and do not know.

Light and praise,
Love and atonement, harmony and peace.
Touch me, assail me, break and make my heart.

The only thing which can tell us about the novel is the novel.

The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind.

We meet ourselves at every turn In the long country of the past.

Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects.