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“Where have you come from boy?'He looked at her again.'From hell, to take you away in the night and eat you.”
“In such a beast as this..." (he means the army)"...it was the collective power that went, collapsing like a long-exhausted animal, at once falling under its own weight as much as that of its enemy....”
“- Why you?- (...) Im the best.- Modest of you.- I am the best. Modesty has nothing to say about it.”
“...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before its damaged for ever and whats done can never be undone.”
“...Again she did not seem to hear, still looking into Cales eyes. Then slowly, hopelessly, she dropped her gaze. I understand, she said. It was that, of course, that pierced him as if she had stabb...”
“Many are called, few are chosen.”
“Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victimsthe second it crushes, the first it intoxicates.”
“When he said someone had 'died", Erds meant that that the person had stopped doing mathematics. When he said someone had "left", the person had died.”
“Mathematician need only peace of mind and occasionally, paper and pencil.”
“The battle had been as hideous as you might expect between one side who were simply not afraid to die and another who regarded death as merely a door to the eternal life.”
“I have a message for your daughter,” said Cale. “I am bound to her with cables that not even God can break. One day, if there is a soft breeze on her cheek, it may be my breath; one night, if the c...”
“Do you have any idea how mad you sound?’‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity.’ (...)‘And?’‘Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective in rea...”
“The man who believes that honesty is the best policy is not an honest man.”
“Hypocrites,’ replied Cale, ‘I’ve come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are.”
“People treat the present moment as if it is just a stopping point on the way to some great goal that will happen in the future, and then they are surprised that the long day closes; they look back ...”
“- Why you?- (...) I’m the best.- Modest of you.- I am the best. Modesty has nothing to say about it.”
“...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.”
“...Again she did not seem to hear, still looking into Cale’s eyes. Then slowly, hopelessly, she dropped her gaze. “I understand,” she said. It was that, of course, that pierced him as if she had st...”
“As it happens I don't think it was God- the woman who saved me, she doesn't look like she's had much to do with angels, Perhaps the Devil was behind me all the time.”
“Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims—the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates.”
