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| 94f8afe | This, I realized now watching Dienekes rally and tend to his men, was the role of the officer: to prevent those under this command, at all stages of battle--before, during and after--from becoming "possessed." To fire their valor when it flagged and rein in their fury when it threatened to take them out of hand. That was Dienekes' job. That was why he wore the transverse-crested helmet of an officer. His was not, I could see now, the herois.. | officership warrior warrior-ethos | Steven Pressfield | |
| a16ee7d | As all born teachers, he was primarily a student. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| 89fdd72 | Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy! | dionysus | Euripides | |
| 87b0294 | She sings a dark destructive song. | Euripides | ||
| d658d17 | You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear. | Anne Carson | ||
| 45335f2 | I look at my yesterdays for months past, and find them as good a lot of yesterdays as anybody might want. I sit there in the firelight and see them all. The hours that made them were good, and so were the moments that made the hours. I have had responsibilities and work, dangers and pleasure, good friends, and a world without walls to live in. | Beryl Markham | ||
| 2ac01f7 | What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack. Kibii, the Nandi boy, was my good friend. Arab Ruta (the same boy grown to manhood), who sits before me, is my good friend, but the handclasp will be shorter, the smile will not be so eager on his lips, and though t.. | colonial-society discrimination inequality | Beryl Markham | |
| 5863b65 | Me anima la debil esperanza de que alguna persona llegue a entenderme. Aunque sea una sola persona. (66) | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| bdd5148 | boredom was as exhausting as backbreaking labor. | Jung Chang | ||
| 05318e3 | made me promise to cut down on the drinking and swearing, which I have. Unfortunately, this has left me dim-witted and nearly speechless. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 30acb03 | I think I fell in love with you the first time I saw you, Molly mine. And when I look at you, that's all I'm ever going to see, the woman I love. It doesn't matter if you're perfect. To me, you will be, and that's all that counts. It'll be that way always. Even years from now, when you're old and withered, I'll see you with my heart, not my eyes. That's just the way it is when you love someone. The imperfections don't exist. If you see them.. | love romance | Catherine Anderson | |
| 1a3c439 | The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. | Jack London | ||
| a498652 | Here was intellectual life, he thought, and here was beauty, warm and wonderful as he had never dreamed it could be. He forgot himself and stared at her with hungry eyes. Here was something to live for, to win to, to fight for--ay, and die for. The books were true. There were such women in the world. She was one of them. She lent wings to his imagination, and great, luminous canvases spread themselves before him whereon loomed vague, gigant.. | Jack London | ||
| 7461db0 | At the first step upon the cold surface, Buck's feet sank into a white mushy something very like mud. He sprang back with a snort. More of this white stuff was falling through the air. He shook himself, but more of it fell upon him. He sniffed it curiously, then licked some up on his tongue. It bit like fire, and the next instant was gone. This puzzled him. He tried it again, with the same result. The onlookers laughed uproariously, and he .. | Jack London | ||
| 84a97ad | He had killed man, the noblest game of all, and he had killed in the face of the law of club and fang. | Jack London | ||
| ab90670 | Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no fair weather. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| ade00ab | The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at each unconscious face, to kiss each with lips that mutely blessed, and to pray the fervent prayers which only mothers utter. | louisa-may-alcott mothers | Louisa May Alcott | |
| d35ae7c | Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not? | looks pretty | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 9a12211 | nothing remained but loneliness and grief... | little-women loneliness louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| f726963 | she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children. | jo-s-boys louisa-may-alcott mothers | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 7e3d6fa | what I want you to be - I don't mean physically but morally: you are very well physically - is a firm fellow, a fine firm fellow, with a will of your own, with resolution. with determination. with strength of character that is not to be influenced except on good reason by anybody, or by anything. That's what I want you to be. That's what your father, & your mother might both have been | Charles Dickens | ||
| d49af75 | Why don't you cry again, you little wretch? -Because I'll never cry for you again. | Charles Dickens | ||
| e364e4e | Depth answers only to depth . | Charles Dickens | ||
| 925d2d1 | This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!" | materialism poverty | Charles Dickens | |
| 66f42de | The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble. | Charles Dickens | ||
| ea7b04c | In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life. | estella love love-quotes pip romance | Charles Dickens | |
| 6c1bc17 | He had been for many years, a quiet silent man, associating but little with other men, and used to companionship with his own thoughts. He had never known before the strength of the want in his heart for the frequent recognition of a nod, a look, a word; or the immense amount of relief that had been poured into it by drops through such small means. | loneliness sadness solitude | Charles Dickens | |
| a5797dd | Era el mejor de los tiempos y era el peor de los tiempos; la edad de la sabiduria y tambien de la locura; la epoca de las creencias y de la incredulidad; la era de la luz y de las tinieblas; la primavera de la esperanza y el invierno de la desesperacion. Todo lo poseiamos, pero nada teniamos; ibamos directamente al cielo y nos extraviabamos en el camino opuesto. En una palabra, aquella epoca era tan parecida a la actual, que nuestras mas no.. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 1cd208c | No one is useless in this world,' retorted the Secretary, 'who lightens the burden of it for any one else. | Charles Dickens | ||
| cb8d443 | Where shall I keep mine? You don't put your past in your pocket; you have to have a house. I have only my body: a man entirely alone, with his lonely body, cannot indulge in memories; they pass through him. I shouldn't complain: all I wanted was to be free. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| f5f1537 | I live in the past. I take everything that has happened to me and arrange it. From a distance like that, it doesn't do any harm, you'd almost let yourself be caught in it. Our whole story is fairly beautiful. I give it a few prods and it makes a whole string of perfect moments. Then I close my eyes and try to imagine that I'm still living inside it. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 7a7b15c | My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I'm going to sleep. | Jean Paul Sartre | ||
| ae62337 | My passion was dead. For years it had rolled over and submerged me; now I felt empty. But that wasn't the worst: before me, posed with a sort of indolence, was a voluminous, insipid idea. I did not see clearly what it was, but it sickened me so much I couldn't look at it. | nausea passion | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| a1f2935 | In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which are somtimes seen as laws by short-lived awareness. These fleshy sensoria which we call self are ephemera withering in the blaze of infinity, fleetingly aware of temporary conditions which confine our activities and change as our activities change. If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Tempor.. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 3b67985 | The test of a man isn't what you think he'll do. It's what he actually does. | test | Frank Herbert | |
| 0d4934a | There is in each of us an ancient force that takes and an ancient force that gives. A man finds little difficulty facing that place within himself where the taking force dwells, but it's almost impossible for him to see into the giving force without changing into something other than man. For a woman, the situation is reversed...These things are so ancient within us...that they're ground into each separate cell of our bodies...It's as easy .. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 4efda80 | I see us giving love to each other in a time of quiet between storms. It's what we were meant to do. | dune love paul sihaya storm | Frank Herbert | |
| 53ca32e | the difference between poets and mystics . . . The mystic nails a symbol to one meaning that was true for a moment but soon becomes false. The poet, on the other hand, sees that truth but understands that symbols are always in flux and that their meanings are fleeting. | symbol truth | Neal Stephenson | |
| d7e7edb | After a little while I felt a little better, but very little. I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 5249b74 | This was the Great Romance. To love at any cost. | Ted Dekker | ||
| 1a2855c | The point is, we were created to love beauty. love beauty because loves beauty. We love song because Elyon loves song. We love because Elyon loves love. And we love to be loved because Elyon loves to be loved. In all these ways we are like Elyon. In one way or another, everything we do is tied to this unfolding story of love between us and Elyon. | Ted Dekker | ||
| 67dc4f7 | Is there anything as incredible as the love story of your own parents? Anything as hard to grasp as the fact that those two over-the-hill players, permanently on the disabled list, were once in the starting lineup? It's impossible to imagine my father, who in my experience was aroused mainly by the lowering of interest rates, suffering the acute, adolescent passions of the flesh. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 65b64f4 | Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at you and see you are a person. No! They have to look at a little photograph of you. Then they believe you exist. | philosophy society | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| fa89fb5 | She had given birth to me and nursed me and brought me up. She had known me before I knew myself and now she had no say in the matter. Life started out one thing and then suddenly turned a corner and became something else. | Jeffrey Eugenides |