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The world is a penal institution.
Taylor Caldwell
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Taylor Caldwell
Age: 84 †
Born: 1900
Born: September 7
Died: 1985
Died: August 30
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Manchester
England
Marcus Holland
Max Reiner
Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell
Janet Miriam Reback
Penal
Institution
Institutions
World
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Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.
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It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you.
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Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.
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My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.
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But what was a body? Dust, dung, urine, itches. It was the light within which was important, and it was not significant if that light endured after death, or if the soul was blinded eternally in the endless night of the suspired flesh.
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I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.
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