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The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and we must laboriously seek the meaning of each word and line, conjecturing a larger sense than common use permits out of what wisdom and valor and generosity we have. Henry David Thoreau
John Fowles quote: "I mean I never feel I feel what I ought to feel."
I mean I never feel I feel what I ought to feel. John Fowles
Virginia Woolf quote: "What did it mean to her, this thing she called life? Oh, it..."
What did it mean to her, this thing she called life? Oh, it was very queer. Virginia Woolf
Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers? Victor Hugo
I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life. Fernando Pessoa
Chris Hedges quote: "A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon..."
A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom. Chris Hedges
They were really getting quite fond of their strange pet and hoped that Aslan would allow them to keep it. The cleverer ones were quite sure by now that at least some of the noises which came out of his mouth had a meaning. They christened him Brandy because he made that noise so often. C. S. Lewis
In this life you have to be your own hero. By that I mean you have to win whatever it is that matters to you by your own strength and in your own way. Like it or not, you are alone in a forest, just like all those fairy tales that begin with a hero who’s usually stupid but somehow brave, or who might be clever, but weak as a straw, and away he goes (don’t worry about the gender), cheered on by nobody, via the castles and the bears, and the old witch and the enchanted stream, and by and by... Jeanette Winterson
To be a woman condemned to a wretched and disgraceful punishment is no impediment to beauty, but it is an insurmountable obstacle to power. Like all persons of real genius, her ladyship well knew what accorded with her nature and her means. Poverty disgusted her -subjection deprived her of two-thirds of her greatness. Her ladyship was only a queen amongst queens: the enjoyment of satisfied pride was essential to her sway. To command beings of an inferior nature, was, to her, rather a... Alexander Dumas
To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from. Terry Tempest Williams
Blaise Pascal quote: "Two infinites. Mean. When we read too quickly or too slowly we..."
Two infinites. Mean. When we read too quickly or too slowly we do not understand anything. Blaise Pascal
Yeah, I know, the Mars thing. I've been meaning to talk to you about that. When did you get the idea it would be cute to carve my dad's cell-phone number on a rock in the middle of Syrtis Major? He hates it when people call me on his phone."Kit gave Nita a resigned look. "Sorry," he said, "I couldn't resist. Diane Duane
Neil Gaiman quote: "Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I..."
Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean. Neil Gaiman
I mean I know it's cold out here and not everybody has a sleeping bag. But when you grit your teeth and stick it out until dawn! Suzanne Collins
It makes me cry because it means that fewer and fewer people are believing it's cool to want what I want, which is to be married and have kids and love each other in a monogamous, long-lasting relationship. Mindy Kaling

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