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Danglers alone was content and joyous, he had got rid of an enemy and preserved his situation on board the Pharaon; Danglers was one of those men born with a pen behind the ear, and an ink-stand in place of a heart. Everything with him was multiplication or subtraction, and he estimated the life of a man as less precious than a figure, when that figure could increase, and that life would diminish, the total of the amount. Alexander Dumas
[...] I suppose this was the first time I had ever felt an urge not to be. Never an urge to die, far less an urge to put an end to myself - simply an urge not to be. This disgusting, hostile and unlovely world was not made for me, nor I for it. It was alien to me and I to it. Stephen Fry
It is less easy to find people in the woods and fields. And if you are supposed to be on the road, there is some chance that you will be looked for on the road and not off it."-Frodo Baggins J. R. R. Tolkien
Wislawa Szymborska quote: "I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkablethan any other."
I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkablethan any other. Wislawa Szymborska
But the more shrewdly and earnestly we study the histories of men, the less ready shall we be to make use of the word ‘artificial.’ Nothing in the world has ever been artificial. Many customs, many dresses, many works of art are branded with artificiality because the exhibit vanity and self-consciousness: as if vanity were not a deep and elemental thing, like love and hate and the fear of death. Vanity may be found in darkling deserts, in the hermit and in the wild beasts that crawl around... Gilbert K. Chesterton
Richard Russo quote: "They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less..."
They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving, Richard Russo
But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey? Nothing, you say? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men! Truly, would you not for less than that make the tour around the world? Jules Verne
But strangers and the poor may pluck for themselves the fruit from my tree: that causes less shame. But beggars should be entirely done away with! Truly, it annoys one to give to them and it annoys one not to give to them. Friedrich Nietzsche
Our thought should not merely be an answer to what someone else has just said. Or what someone else might have said. Our interior world must be more than an echo of the words of someone else. There is no point in being a moon to somebody else's sun, still less is there any justification for our being moons of one another, and hence darkness to one another, not one of us being a true sun. Thomas Merton
Shirley Hazzard quote: "Women can be divided, more or less, into cows and shrews, and..."
Women can be divided, more or less, into cows and shrews, and the shrews are to be avoided. [p. 74] Shirley Hazzard
George R. R. Martin quote: "Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less..."
Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that. George R. R. Martin
Without opening your door, you can open your heart to the world. Without looking out your window, you can see the essence of the Tao. The more you know, the less you understand. The Master arrives without leaving, sees the light without looking, achieves without doing a thing. Lao Tzu
To the Frenchmen risking their lives to drive the English from Scotland, such a feud seemed no doubt an ill-timed indulgence. To Buccleuch, any comment from a foreigner was a piece of damnable impertinence, no less. Dorothy Dunnett
Yes, she is in love with him, and yes, in spite of his qualms and inner hesitations, he loves her back, however improbable that might seem to him. Note here for the record that he is not someone with a special fixation on young girls. Until now, all the women in his life have been more or less his own age. Pilar therefore does not represent an embodiment of some ideal female type for him--she is merely herself, a small piece of luck he stumbled across one afternoon in a public park, an... Paul Auster
Robert Frost quote: "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled..."
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by. Robert Frost

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