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Category: Maria McCann

How did men make themselves loved, I wondered. I had passed all my life with men who were loved but I seemed never to have learnt the lesson.

isolation, loneliness, love

Whatever makes a man a beast also renders him pitiable. But it behoves us to be wary of these bestial men despite our compassion, for they frequently turn on their friends.

betrayal, compassion, violence

God cuts out our path, makes a groove in the clay with His finger, and we poor blind ants slide down into it.

ant, blind, clay, god, path, poor

Behold,’ said the Voice, ‘earthly beauty. It is nothing but seeming, for to the uninstructed eye the world appears fruitful and sweet, yet in it is nothing but a pile of skulls, showing where others were lost as they went before.

beauty, earth, lost, skull, voice

I mean that repeated offences, even when they secure forgiveness, drive out love. And from that I came to say that one may compel obedience but never love.

forgiveness, love, obedience, offence

I dig and plough at your command,’ I replied, ‘but you will not tell me how to shit.

I mean that repeated offences, even when they secure forgiveness, drive out love. And from that I came to say that one may compel obedience but never love.

forgiveness, love, obedience, offence