The Isle of Life: A RomanceCharles Scribner's Sons, 1913 - 498 pages |
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The Isle of Life: A Romance Stephen French Whitman,Publisher Charles Scribner's Sons,Printer Scribner Press No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 110 - No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is •what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
Page 110 - They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil.
Page 211 - Or do you want to spend the rest of your life in the womb of ignorance, which is not even a womb but rather a coffin! Initially, the Soul is unconscious.