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The world is big … May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life’s full measure.
The Abyss (1968)
Few bipeds, from Adam's time down, have been worthy of the name of man.
The Abyss (1968)
Doubtless it signified one or the other meaning alternately, or perhaps both at the same time.
The Abyss (1968)
Who would be so besotted as to die without having made at least the round of this, his prison?
The Abyss (1968)
In alchemical treatises, the formula L'Oeuvre au Noir … designates what is said to be the most difficult phase of the alchemist's process, the separation and dissolution of substance.
The Abyss (1968)
At this period of his existence, meat and blood, entrails, and all that had ever lived and breathed disgusted him as food, for an animal dies in pain just as man does, and it repelled him to be digesting death's agony.
The Abyss (1968)
Beyond this village, other villages; beyond this abbey, other abbeys; and after the fortress, more fortresses still. And each of these castles of stone and each wooden hut has its structure of fixed ideas or flimsy, ill-based opinions superposed above it within which fools stay immured, but the wise find apertures for escape.
The Abyss (1968)
The skirmishes with the theologians had had their charm, but he knew well that no lasting accord exists between those who seek, ponder, and dissect and pride themselves on being capable of thinking tomorrow other than they do today, and those who accept the Faith, or declare that they do, and oblige their fellow men to do the same, on pain of death.
The Abyss (1968)