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1. "How can I know for sure if it's my son speaking and not you?""You never can, my lord. Just as no man can ever be sure that he alone is a thinking and feeling creature and everyone else a machine that only pretends to feel and think." ~ Paul Hoffman
2. "Until two days ago what had driven him was the will to survive: deep, animal, full of rage—but always part of him had not cared at all whether he lived or died. Now he did care, and very deeply, and so for the first time in a long time he was afraid. To love life is, of course, a wonderful thing, but not on this day of all days." ~ Paul Hoffman
3. "Better a live dog than a dead lion." ~ Paul Hoffman
4. "...this refinement and delicacy were what Cale adored; but Cale had been beaten into shape, hammered in dreadful fires of fear and pain. How could she be with him for long? A secret part of Arbell had been searching for some time for a way to leave her lover—although she was unaware of this, it is only fair to record. And so as Cale waited for her to save him while he worked out a way of saving her, she had already chosen the bitter but reasonable path of the good, of the many over the one..." ~ Paul Hoffman
5. "It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your soul." ~ Paul Hoffman
6. "Hypocrites,' replied Cale, ‘I've come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are." ~ Paul Hoffman
7. "Many are called, few are chosen." ~ Paul Hoffman
8. "...Again she did not seem to hear, still looking into Cale's eyes. Then slowly, hopelessly, she dropped her gaze. "I understand," she said. It was that, of course, that pierced him as if she had stabbed him through the heart. To him it was the sound of lost faith and it was unendurable. He felt he'd become a kind of god in her eyes, and it was simply impossible to give up her adoration." ~ Paul Hoffman
9. "Sometimes, war being the unjust and drastic creature it is, those in whom he invested hopes took an arrow in the chest, the useless, by chance, thrived to irritate him another day." ~ Paul Hoffman
10. "Whatever discoveries have been made in the land of self-delusion, many undiscovered regions remain to be explored." ~ Paul Hoffman
11. "Como muchos hombres inteligentes, cree que los demás son idiotas." ~ Paul Hoffman
12. "Buh není nejaký kriminálník, který podvádí v kartách. Chce, abychom se jeho zákony rídili svobodne, z vlastní vule. Ani Buh nedokáže nakreslit kulatý ctverec. Buh je osamelý - chce, aby si lidé poslušnost sami zvolili, a ne aby k ní byli prinuceni strachem." ~ Paul Hoffman
13. "Lidské srdce je malé, touží ale po velkých vecech. Nestací ani zasytit psa, ale celý svet pro nej není dost velký." ~ Paul Hoffman
14. "...and what is a good weapon but a good idea made murderous flesh?" ~ Paul Hoffman
15. "...la solución a todo problema es siempre otro problema." ~ Paul Hoffman
16. "... los hombres importantes tienen responsabilidades importantes, y la de no mantener su palabra es una de ellas." ~ Paul Hoffman
17. "...his soul (was) ringing like a well-struck bell. But it was a bell that rang with more than joy and adoration — there was the sound there too of anger and resentment. She would not look at him because she did not want to be in his presence. She hated him and he (how could he not?) hated her in return." ~ Paul Hoffman
18. "t was once famously said that it is as well that wars are so ruinously expensive, else we would never stop fighting them. However well said, it seems also to be endlessly forgotten that, while there may be just wars and unjust wars, there are never any cheap wars." ~ Paul Hoffman
19. "... If the dead can come back to this earth and move unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you; in the garish day and in the darkest night—amidst your happiest scenes and gloomiest hours—always, always; and if there be a soft breeze upon your cheek, it shall be my breath; or if the cool air fans your throbbing temple, it shall be my spirit passing by." ~ Paul Hoffman
20. "Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims—the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates." ~ Paul Hoffman
21. "...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it's damaged for ever and what's done can never be undone." ~ Paul Hoffman
22. "Get on your feet or die." ~ Paul Hoffman
23. "(Arbell)The ungrateful gorgeous bitch." ~ Paul Hoffman
24. "Think of how strange the colours and sights of the world would be for a blind man abruptly made to see or a man deaf from birth hearing the playing of a hundred flutes" ~ Paul Hoffman
25. "The battle had been as hideous as you might expect between one side who were simply not afraid to die and another who regarded death as merely a door to the eternal life." ~ Paul Hoffman
26. "Ser sociable es muy arriesgado, incluso fatal, porque supone estar en contacto con personas, la mayor parte de las cuales son aburridas, perversas o ignorantes, y sólo lo buscan a uno porque no soportan su propia compañía. La mayor parte se aburren a sí mismos y reciben a los demás no como a verdaderos amigos, sino como una distracción..." ~ Paul Hoffman
27. "Cuanto más viejo me hago más propenso a creer que si el amor ha de juzgarse por sus efectos visibles, se parece más al odio que a la amistad." ~ Paul Hoffman
28. "Solitude is a wonderful thing in two ways. First, it allows a man to be with himself, and second, it prevents him being with others." ~ Paul Hoffman
29. "That's how the world is, and there is nothing an insignificant nobody like you, or even a significant somebody like me, can do about it." ~ Paul Hoffman
30. "The heart of a man is a small thing but it desires great matters. It is not big enough for a dog's dinner but the whole world is not big enough for it. Man spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing. From the lamb he tears its guts and makes his harp resound; from the wolf his most deadly tooth to polish his pretty works of art; from the elephant his tusks to make a toy for his child.(...)And who will exterminate him who exterminates all others?" ~ Paul Hoffman
31. "You're the right colour for the Angel of Death, Mister Cale. But a little short.' 'I could cut your head off and stand on it. Then I'd be taller." ~ Paul Hoffman
32. "Cuando uno les demuestra a los demás que están equivocados, los demás lo odian a uno por ello." ~ Paul Hoffman
33. "La fuerza es tan despiadada con quien la posee como con quien la sufre: a este lo aplasta, al primero lo envenena." ~ Paul Hoffman
34. "Estoy unido a ella por lazos que ni siquiera Dios puede romper. Un día, si una suave brisa le acaricia la mejilla, puede que sea mi aliento; y si una noche el fresco aire juega con su pelo, será mi espíritu el que pasa a su lado." ~ Paul Hoffman
35. "Nemá smysl zlobit se na nekoho za to, že je sám sebou a stará se o vlastní zájmy." ~ Paul Hoffman
36. "In stories of the good and bad it's only the good who are subject to dreadful luck, mischance and blundering. The bad are always sharp and act with discipline, have cunning plans only just thwarted in the nick of time. The evil are always on the cusp of winning ways." ~ Paul Hoffman
37. "We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy." ~ Paul Hoffman
38. "There are times we are givers, but others time we have to let others give to us." ~ Paul Hoffman
39. "But I felt that most of us in the world today gave priority to our personal interests." ~ Paul Hoffman
40. "We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace." ~ Paul Hoffman
41. "I would like to say that no man ever was given finer cooperation than that given me by President Truman." ~ Paul Hoffman
42. "If there was to be a new Europe, there not only had to be a common market, but also great mobility in labor." ~ Paul Hoffman
43. "Among the reasons for this was the fact that the U.S.A. is one mass market. It is only when you have a mass market that large-scale manufacturing which involves very substantial expenditures can be justified." ~ Paul Hoffman
44. "At the time it seriously troubled me, but in drafting me as Marshall Plan Administrator, President Truman did as great a favor for me as one man can do for another. It opened my eyes to many things of which I was totally unaware and it was the beginning of my real education." ~ Paul Hoffman
45. "However, from the very beginning of the program, we made it perfectly clear that we would be out of Europe in four years; that whatever was to be accomplished had to be accomplished in that period of time." ~ Paul Hoffman
46. "If he had listened to some of his advisors and had tried to make the Marshall Plan a political dumping ground for unqualified politicians, it couldn't have been a success." ~ Paul Hoffman
47. "In its best prewar year, Europe with almost 300 million people had a gross national product of 150 billion dollars. In that same year, the United States with 150 million people had a gross national product of 300 billion dollars." ~ Paul Hoffman
48. "The Europeans had made two promises to the United States if Marshall Plan help was forthcoming. The first promise was maximum self-help on the part of every country; and second, maximum mutual aid." ~ Paul Hoffman
49. "The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive work. In a sense, the mission chiefs were given the opportunity to help act as architects for the new Europe that was envisioned." ~ Paul Hoffman
50. "Do you have any idea how mad you sound?'‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity.' (...)‘And?'‘Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective in reason, how mean his facilities, how ugly in form and movement, in action how like a devil, in apprehension how like a cow. The beauty of the world? The paragon of animals? To me the quintessence of dust." ~ Paul Hoffman
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