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Even a priest may doubt. Even a prophet may know terror. Aeron Damphair reached within himself for his god and discovered only silence. George R. R. Martin
J. D. Salinger quote: "the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out."
the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out. J. D. Salinger
When a man's his own enemy, it's only because he's too much his own friend; not because he's careful for everybody but himself. Pooh! Pooh! There ain't such a thing in nature. Charles Dickens
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "It only takes two facing mirrors to build a labyrinth."
It only takes two facing mirrors to build a labyrinth. Jorge Luis Borges
The measure of a life is a measure of love and respect, So hard to earn so easily burned. In the fullness of time, A garden to nurture and protect. It's a measure of a life. The treasure of a life is a measure of love and respect, The way you live, the gifts that you give. In the fullness of time, It's the only return that you expect Neil Peart
When I wake, I have a brief, delicious feeling of happiness that is somehow connected with Peeta. Happiness, of course, is a complete absurdity at this point, since at the rate things are going, I'll be dead in a day. And that's the best-case scenario, if I'm able to eliminate the rest of the field, including myself, and get Peeta crowned as the winner of the Quarter Quell. Still, the sensation's so unexpected and sweet I cling to it, if only for a few moments. Before the gritty sand, the hot... Suzanne Collins
Anne Rice quote: "I no nothing of god or the devil, and after 400 years... This..."
I no nothing of god or the devil, and after 400 years... This is the only real evil left... Anne Rice
Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them. Terry Prachett
I have no sounds that could serve to soothe me, no violoncello like him, no lament that anyone would recognize as a lament because it sounds subdued, in an inexpressibly tender language. I have only these lines on the yellowish paper and words that are never new, for they keep saying the same thing through an entire life. Elias Canetti
For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers; besides, even the productions that are only addressed to the imagination, raise the reader a little above the gross gratification of appetites, to which the mind has not given a shade of delicacy. Mary Wollstonecraft
Isaac Asimov quote: "There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that..."
There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass. Isaac Asimov
One only makes books in order to keep in touch with one's fellows after one has ceased to breath, and thus to defend oneself against the inexorable fate of all that lives - transitoriness and oblivion. Stefan Zweig
Italo Calvino quote: "Memory really matters...only if it enables us to become..."
Memory really matters...only if it enables us to become without ceasing to be, and to be without ceasing to become. Italo Calvino
One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered. Napoleon Bonaparte
It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully. We seek other conditions because we do not understand the use of our own, and go outside of ourselves because we do not know what it is like inside. Yet there is no use our mounting on stilts, for on stilts we must still walk on our own legs. And on the loftiest throne in the world we are still sitting only on our own rump. Michel de Montaigne

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