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“Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart.”
“Memories of lost love they do enpain,Fleeting images of what once was never again to gain.Hold tight those memories that slip through the mind, To walk in those fields again with hera dream divi...”
“As she left the cold arena Angel had to laugh,Beaten by that of a wisp girl and her subliming cunning craft.Jove lay silent in his orbit; brooding, deep, dreamless forweep,And faithful dog Sirius r...”
“The Valkyries heart was wrought of dazzling gold full of the most finest and firmest of loves, this being the secret of her many moods and akimbo inspirangular mercies. On Kari, Ch. Fifteen Valley...”
“Isnt it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singin...”
“Learning the truth has become my life's love.”
“thus with a kiss I die”
“I am not a victim. No matter what I have been through, I'm still here. I have a history of victory.”
“It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all.”
“What really happened doesn't matter. What matters is how we agree to remember it.”
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
“People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.”
“Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.”
“Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.”
“We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”
“His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives.”
“If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these al...”
“All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.”
“How much evil throughout history could have been avoided had people exercised their moral acuity with convictional courage and said to the powers that be, 'No, I will not. This is wrong, and I don'...”
“Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.”
