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"Commitment is an act, not a word."
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"Living honestly is a prerequisite for a clear conscience."
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"You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running."
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"People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked. The man who lies to the world, is the world's slave from then on. There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all."
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"A legendary horse is praised not for its strength, but for its Integrity."
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"Dimitri is dead," she said. It was a statement, not a question, but she was looking to me for confirmation. I wondered if I'd given away something, some hint that there was still more to the story. Or maybe she just needed the certainty of those words. And for a moment, I considered telling them that Dimitri was dead. It was what the Academy would tell them, what the guardians would tell them. It would be easier on them...but somehow, I couldn't stand to lie to them-even if it was a comforting lie. Dimitri would have wanted the whole truth, and his family would too. "No," I said, and for a heartbeat, hope sprang up in everyone's faces-at least until I spoke again. "Dimitri's a Strigoi."
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"Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others."
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"Well, whose opinion did you take? "I don't ask for opinions." "What do you go by?"Judgment. "Well, whose judgment did you take? "Mine. "But whom did you consult about it?". "Nobody."
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"It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous."
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"No crime is so great as daring to excel."
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"Fake people talk about other people being fake. Real people worry about their business, and no one else's."
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"If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat."
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"I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it."
Mortality
"Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees."
Freedom
"Man lives in the midst of images. Literature offers him a critical image of himself."
Art
"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."
Fact
"It is the reflection of my face. Often in these lost days I study it: I can understand nothing of this face. The faces of others have some sense, some direction. Not mine. I cannot even decide whether it is handsome or ugly. I think it is ugly because I have been told so. But it doesn't strike me. At heart, I am even shocked that anyone can attribute qualities of this kind to it, as if you called a clod of earth or a block of stone beautiful or ugly."
Identity
"I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be."
Blood
"What sort of adventures?' I asked him, astonished. 'All sorts, Monsieur. Getting on the wrong train. Stopping in an unknown city. Losing your briefcase, being arrested by mistake, spending the night in prison. Monsieur, I believe the word adventure could be defined: an event out of the ordinary without being necessarily extraordinary."
Adventure
"With older people, it's quite different. They're reliable, they show you what to do, and there's solidity in their affection."
Relationship
"You talk a lot about this amazing flow of time but you hardly see it. you see a women, you think that one day she'll be old, only you don't see her grow old. But there are moments when you think you see her grow old and feel yourself growing old with her: this is the feeling of adventure."
Aging
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