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“His every movement was laced with a lethal combination of grace and strength, a lord among mere mortals. He was confident, arrogant, composed and unfazed by her best efforts to beguile him.”
“If I had known how good cooked meat tastes, I would have breathed my fire on all those pigs before I ate them.”
“In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.”
“How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young? ”
“Il n'y a de ralit que dans l'action.(There is no reality except in action.)”
“He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was so complete, beneath a lovely sky as mellow and serene as a good...”
“In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone who has not made a success of his life. But on the other h...”
“I am what some would say 'holy, and wholly other than you.' The problem is that many folks try to grasp some sense of who I am by taking the best version of themselves, projecting that to the nth d...”
“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.”
“Ariadne made an impression on you, and that's great. But life is not literature. Sooner or later, the spell wears off, the romantic feelings disappear, and you're left watching somebody's body disi...”
“You don't seem mad at all,' she said.But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chroni...”
“i don't regret the difficulties I experienced; I think they help helped me to become the person I am today. i feel the way a warrior must feel after years of traning; he doesn't remember the detail...”
“Those who make us believe that anythings possible and fire our imagination over the long haul, are often the ones who have survived the bleakest of circumstances. The men and women who have every r...”
“The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.”
“One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes argument I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact o...”
“If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier for you to accept the deaths of your wife and daughters. But if good people do ex...”
“On one hand the eternal attraction of man towards femininity (cf. Gn. 2:23) frees in him-or perhaps it should free-a gamut of spiritual-corporal desires of an especially personal and "sharing" natu...”
“Isn't wine prohibited here?" the boy asked. "It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil," said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouths that is.”
“I plead with you--never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid.”
“The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.”
