He knew then that men died at haphazard like that, and live only while blind chance spared them. It was not, primarily, the injustice of it that disturbed him ; he accepted that after the first shock. What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with life.
The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett
1930
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