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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fee3930 | If you see a chance to be happy, you have to fight for it, so later you have no regrets. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 4f713c0 | The most important acts, both for the one who accomplishes them and for his fellow creatures, are those that have remote consequences. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| c19c042 | My writing is like those little carved baskets made in prisons... | writing | Leo Tolstoy | |
| d97493f | Now he experienced a feeling akin to that of a man whom while calmly crossing a bridge over a precipice, should suddenly discover that the bridge is broken, and that there is a chasm below. That chasm was life itself, the bridge that artificial life in which Aleksey Aleksandrovich had lived. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| fdc2c50 | The little princess, like an old war horse that hears the trumpet, unconsciously and quite forgetting her condition, prepared for the familiar gallop of coquetry, without any ulterior motive or any struggle, but with naive and lighthearted gaiety. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| fa11d51 | A man cannot get rid of the responsibility, for his own actions. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| d739bbe | Therein is the whole business of one's life; to seek out and save in the soul that which is perishing. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 0d142bd | In the depths of his heart Vasili Andreevich knew that it could not yet be near morning, but he was growing more and more afraid, and wished both to get to know and yet to deceive himself. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 20b51ba | Pierre's insanity consisted in not waiting, as he used to do, to discover personal attributes which he termed "good qualities" in people before loving them; his heart was now overflowing with love, and by loving people without cause he discovered indubitable causes for loving them." | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 9482a89 | But the more intensely he thought, the clearer it became to him that it was indubitably so, that in reality, looking upon life, he had forgotten one little fact-that death will come, and all ends; that nothing was even worth beginning, and that there was no helping it anyway. Yes it was awful, but it was so. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| b038671 | The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 8529337 | Well, he us a nab, he is mortal, death comes to us all, etcetera, and consequently he would have died anyways, sooner or later. Or to look at it from the social point of view - he's just one man among many, the loss would be well within reason and convenience. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 4e2d456 | WILDE: Oh -- Bosie! (He weeps.) I have to go back to him, you know. Robbie will be furious but it can't be helped. The betrayal of one's friends is a bagatelle in the stakes of love, but the betrayal of oneself is a lifelong regret. Bosie is what became of me. He is spoiled, vindictive, utterly selfish and not very talented, but these are merely the facts. The truth is he was Hyacinth when Apollo loved him, he is ivory and gold, from his re.. | classics love oscar-wilde robbie-ross victorians writing | Tom Stoppard | |
| 7c09050 | I learned three things in Zurich during the war. I wrote them down. Firstly, you're either a revolutionary or you're not, and if you're not you might as well be an artist as anything else. Secondly, if you can't be an artist, you might as well be a revolutionary... I forget the third thing. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 52c5dc1 | Ya no estoy muerto, estoy enamorado. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| fc5bffd | to his efforts to perpetuate man: but he has preserved nothing but sensations; and, although his invention was incomplete, he at least foreshadowed the truth: man will one day create human life. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| 6e3abd5 | He believed he understood, for the first time, why people say life is a dream: if you live long enough, the events of a lifetime, like the events of a dream, cannot be communicated, simply because they are of no interest to anyone. Human beings themselves, after death, become figures in a dream to the survivors , they fade away and are forgotten, like dreams that were once convincing, but which no one cares to hear about. There are parents .. | life | Adolfo Bioy Casares | |
| dfc21eb | The influence of the future on the past," said Morel enthusiastically, almost inaudibly." | future influence past | Adolfo Bioy Casares | |
| f014cfe | Creio que perdemos a imortalidade porque a resistencia a morte nao evoluiu; seus aperfeicoamentos insistem na ideia primitiva, rudimentar, de manter vivo todo o corpo. So se deveria procurar conservar o que interessa para a consciencia. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| 6f328a9 | Nessa] didn't know how to disagree with a preacher, or if she was even allowed to, so she merely wrote, "Thank you, anyway, kind sir, but I am not going to marry you." | Kristiana Gregory | ||
| e1939a3 | I'll send Ria to you. Save you sneaking up the wall. | simon wall | Nalini Singh | |
| 0a291a7 | To Morgan, the disfigurement of his monstrous nose was the touch of God upon him, the assurance of mortality. It was the steadiest assurance he had. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 8431247 | Butler shot one of the half dozen diners a fierce glare, just in case she might be planning something. The woman must have been at least eighty. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 60a7cc8 | I am not qualified to deal with this. Why does everyone I meet seem to have mental problems? I do not have mental problems! I say to the voice in my head, perfectly aware how damning it would sound were I to say it aloud. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 828ad6c | Excuse me, Tex," the nurse said, hands on hips. 'Would you mind reining in the voice. There are babies being born in this hospital. We wouldn't want the first sound they hear to be your painful howling. There could be lawsuits." | half-moon half-moon-investigations mystery | Eoin Colfer | |
| c1d0d37 | Make it fast, you shower of stinking rabbit droppings, I've got a fresh blade that I'm just itching to test! | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 27cfb3b | Time to do what he did best - plot dastardly acts. | funny mastermind | Eoin Colfer | |
| 2d40a94 | Hogwarts, it is not, thought the Doctor, realising that no one would appreciate this reference for almost a century. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 24f7637 | Punching - 2 shillings Both eyes blacked - 4 shillings Nose and jaw broke - 10 shillings Jacked out (knocked out with a blackjack) - 15 shillings Ear chewed off - same as previous Leg or arm broke - 19 shillings Shot in leg - 25 shillings Stab - same as previous Doing the Big Job - 3 pounds and up | Eoin Colfer | ||
| e637d5e | The trick to negotiation was to hold all the cards going in and, even if you didn't, to try to look as though you did. | trick | Eoin Colfer | |
| 0a5ef60 | It was no time for mercy, it was time to terminate with extreme prejudice. | mercy | Eoin Colfer | |
| ece8bf2 | Artemis remembered a few lines from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: "But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice. "Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here." | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 25998cc | The thought that he might, and very probably would die that night occurred to him, but did not seem particularly unpleasant or dreadful. It did not seem particularly unpleasant, because his whole life had been not a continual holiday, but on the contrary an unceasing round of toil of which he was beginning to feel weary. And it did not seem particularly dreadful, because besides the masters he had served here, like Vasili Andreevich, he alw.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| a665167 | Baji-naji, nand' paidhi. Fortune has a human face and bastard Chance whores drunken down your streets. | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| a6c3f8e | But there was someone she knew who could speak with a special knowledge on the Cross-Lexcorp controversy. Someone she'd rather not deal with. Someone she'd as soon not see again as long as she lived. Her former fiance. Lex. Lex Luthor. - Lois Lane | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| c5bd57d | For another--you can move faster than she can. You are as recognizable as she is. And you are willing to take cover. We are not so certain about the dowager. | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| 153ae3b | Yes, aiji-ma." "What is this agreement? You are most valuable when you argue, paidhi! Do not say yes to me!" "I shall most strenuously object when you are wrong, aiji-ma. You have been infallibly right at least this last hour." "Ha." | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| 9fab008 | One tribe moves out and one tribe stays. History broadens, and philosophy shifts, develops a rift, splits one population from the other . . . and a schism happens, minor or major. It's the way humankind has always proliferated. We go over the next hill, live a few hundred years, change our languages to accommodate things we never saw before--and before we know it, our cousins think we have an accent. Or we think they have a strange attitude.. | C.J. Cherryh | ||
| db08a20 | yes is all you ever need to say to begin a journey. | Bill Richardson | ||
| acfbc24 | Mind what you do; if you deceive me once I shall never believe you again. | Denis Diderot | ||
| 94f3c7e | False faith is the major cause of most of our misfortunes. The purpose of a human life is to bring the irrational beginning of our life to a rational beginning. In order to succeed in this, two things are important: (1) to see all irrational, unwise things in life and direct your attention to them and study them; (2) to understand the possibility of a rational, wise life. The major purpose of all teachers of mankind was the understanding of.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| dc935b5 | They say: misfortunes, sufferings...well, if someone said to me right now, this minute: do you want to remain the way you were before captivity, or live through it all over again? For God's sake, captivity again and horsemeat! Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost; but it's only here that the new and the good begins. As long as there's life, there's happiness. There's much, much still to come. | suffering war-and-peace | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 9e28fdc | Yes, it is very likely that I shall be killed tomorrow,' he thought. And suddenly at this thought of death a whole series of most distant, most intimate, memories rose in his imagination: he remembered his last parting from his father and his wife; he remembered the days when he first loved her. He thought of her pregnancy and felt sorry for her and for himself, and in a nervously emotional and softened mood he went out of the hut in which .. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 6dd56bb | Even philanthropy did not have the desired effect. The genuine as well as the false paper money which flooded Moscow lost its value. The French, collecting booty, cared only for gold. Not only was the paper money valueless which Napoleon so graciously distributed to the unfortunate, but even silver lost its value in relation to gold. | Leo Tolstoy |