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| d75bdcb | Very often among a certain highly intelligent type of people, quite paradoxical ideas will establish themselves. But they have suffered so much in their lives for these ideas, and have paid so high a price for them that it becomes very painful, indeed almost impossible, for them to part with them. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 9550ec1 | m 'kthr lshrwr lt~ ymkn 'n ntfdh blSrH@. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 6692e36 | Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 205b3df | My sweetheart! When I think of you, it's as if I'm holding some healing balm to my sick soul, and although i suffer for you, i find that even suffering for you is easy. | suffering | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 3adb723 | lqd t`lmw lkdhb w 'Hbwh w `rfw mwTn ljml fyh ,rbm bd' l'mr bryy'an `l~ sbyl lmzH 'w lGnj w ld`b@ w ll`b . w Hqyq@ l'mr 'n lbdy@ knt dhr@ , w 'n dhr@ lkdhb tlk tsrbt l~ qlwbhm w '`jbthm ! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| fb89fb1 | nWa lmr ltbr'u nfshu wtshf~ Hyna y`yshu m` l'Tfl! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 775d145 | Woe to the man who offends a small child! | small-children mistreatment injury children | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 629a50f | A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty--and, by which definition, a philosopher--dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security. | stoppard plays | Tom Stoppard | |
| d47a73d | All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 8822a91 | You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free | Anonymous | ||
| 662a463 | Around the world-even in some of the countries most troubled by poverty or civil war or pollution-many thoughtful people are making a deep, concerted search for a way to live in harmony with each other and the earth. Their efforts, which rarely reach the headlines, are among the most important events occurring today. Sometimes these people call themselves peace workers, at other times environmentalists, but most of the time they work in hum.. | Eknath Easwaran | ||
| 8ec8cba | The freshness of my eyes is given to me in prayer. | Anonymous | ||
| 223ff34 | Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue. | Anonymous | ||
| e6578e5 | The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat. | toil | Adolfo Bioy Casares | |
| 8a3feef | When you've come face-to-face with the dark side of the school yard, life doesn't hold many surprises. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 6353e56 | I wear a name tag to help people find me. It saves time when you're dealing with idiots. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| af1aaf3 | As a child, Zaphod had been diagnosed with ADHDDAAADHD (ntm) ABT which stood for Always Dreaming His Dopey Days Away, Also Attention Deficit Hyperflactulance Disorder (not to mention) A Bit Thick. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| f03a51c | God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being transparent. | Victor Hugo | ||
| d568fed | There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God. | god truth definition | Victor Hugo | |
| f26e9b4 | Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery. | Victor Hugo | ||
| e27072f | I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change. | literature leo-tolstoy russia | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 71f6b7e | I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 958b0f8 | There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 38af81f | I can't afford to spend my time with anyone - there's only enough left for myself | Daniel Keyes | ||
| df2e0e6 | Dr Strauss said I had something that was very good. He said I had a good motor-vation. I never ever knew I had that. I felt proud when he said that not every body with an eye-q of 68 had that thing. I don't know what it is or where I got it but he said Algernon had it too. Algernons motor-vation is the cheese they put in his box. But it cant be that because I didnt eat any cheese last week. | Daniel Keyes | ||
| b61d96a | I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what the thirst-perishing man might feel who knows the well to which he has crept is poisoned, yet stoops and drinks divine draughts nevertheless. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 41bae14 | Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| e67f6c7 | Rapidly, merrily, Life's sunny hours flit by, Gratefully, cheerily Enjoy them as they fly! | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| c89acc1 | What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage. | irony marriage women empowerment love disharmony subjection discord matrimony storytelling inequality gender courtship sarcasm | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 4c26ba7 | They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it. | gone-with-the-wind | Margaret Mitchell | |
| ec29c07 | Come, Scarlett, you are no child, no schoolgirl to put me off with foolish excuses about decency and so forth. Say you'll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won't go. I'll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you'll have to marry me to save your reputation. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| c952524 | I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing others eat - O that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone; then thou should'st see how fat I would be! But must thou sit and I stand? Come down, with a vengeance! | jealousy faustus marlowe seven-deadly-sins envy | Christopher Marlowe | |
| 534d7c7 | Sometimes it take courage to leave. | Ann Rinaldi | ||
| 251d3a4 | My reasoning, if one can call it that, was inflamed by the scatter shot passions of youth and a literary diet overly rich in the works of Nietzshe, Kerouac, and John Menlove Edwards... | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 596f756 | He stole horses' you'll say to yourself, 'and he didn't care for women; and but for my pride I'd have been with him now. | Daphne Du Maurier | ||
| d5c65b1 | You could drop me anywhere in the universe, blindfolded, and I'd know this was his room just from the smell. | Beth Revis | ||
| 6f56b90 | it's as empty as a merchant's soul. Sorry, Kheldar, it's just an old expression." "That's all right, Beldin," Silk forgave him grandly. "These little slips of the tongue are common in the very elderly." | David Eddings | ||
| 4dc075b | Zakath stared at the floor. 'I suddenly feel very helpless,' he admitted, 'and I don't like the feeling. I've been rather effectively dethroned, you know. This morning I was the Emperor of the largest nation on earth; this afternoon, I'm going to be a vagabond.' You might find it refreshing,' Silk told him lightly. Shut up, Kheldar,' Zakath said almost absently. He looked back at Polgara. 'You know something rather peculiar?' What's that?' .. | fantasy happiness | David Eddings | |
| 0d469c1 | Impatience is a poor substitute for a well-considered plan. | David Eddings | ||
| 5fa4d19 | I want a sword not a knitting needle -Kalen | David Eddings | ||
| 07d2846 | But this is my truth; I who am Morgaine tell you these things, Morgaine who was in later days called Morgan le Fay. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 04ebee9 | The Goddess does not shower her gifts on those who reject them. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 722e77c | Here is what I would like for you to know: In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body--it is heritage. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 4acdcc9 | The next day, Greg is so large that he cannot even ride the car to school because he can't fit in the car. His parents believe this to have been caused by a food allergy and resolve to take him to the doctor later. | R.L. Stine |