"If honor and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell."

Defiance, Honor, Choice, Existence

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"If honor and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell."

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"I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing. I will sing while you croak, I will dance over your dirty corpse."

Henry Miller, American Author

Defiance, Death, Violence, Expression

"It was possible that I'd thrown one too many Molotov cocktails over God's fence."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Defiance, Rebellion, Power, Spirit

"You have pissed your last in this house . . . and I don't make velvet roses anymore."

Toni Morrison, American Novelist

Defiance, Anger, Strength, Independence

"She was a rule breaker, never settling her fierce spirit for things built of structure."

Nikki Rowe, American Writer

Defiance, Rebellion, Spirit, Freedom, Rules

"I will not be my father's dog."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Defiance, Identity, Self, Rebellion

"You will suffer, son of Hades!' What else is new? Nico thought."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Defiance, Truth, Power, Regret, Inspirational

"I don't want to be the devil's bitch!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Defiance, Regret, Power, Truth, Wisdom

"You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer, said Miss Pross, in her breathing. "Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Defiance, Strength, Identity, Humor

"The whole world may call you to follow the wrong path! In such a case, tell the whole world to buzz off!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Defiance, Freedom, Power, Truth, Life

"We've known for a long time that it was no longer possible to overturn this world, nor reshape it, nor head off its dangerous headlong rush. There's been only one possible resistance: to not take it seriously."

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

Defiance, Resistance, Seriousness, World, Freedom

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"I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks."

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"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."

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"Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone."

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"Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic."

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"I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing. I will sing while you croak, I will dance over your dirty corpse."

"It was possible that I'd thrown one too many Molotov cocktails over God's fence."

"You have pissed your last in this house . . . and I don't make velvet roses anymore."

"She was a rule breaker, never settling her fierce spirit for things built of structure."

"I will not be my father's dog."

"You will suffer, son of Hades!' What else is new? Nico thought."

"I don't want to be the devil's bitch!"

"You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer, said Miss Pross, in her breathing. "Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman."

"The whole world may call you to follow the wrong path! In such a case, tell the whole world to buzz off!"

"We've known for a long time that it was no longer possible to overturn this world, nor reshape it, nor head off its dangerous headlong rush. There's been only one possible resistance: to not take it seriously."

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"Life and death have been lacking in my life."

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"Writing is nothing more than a guided dream."

"There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite."

"Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual."

"I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks."

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."

"Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone."

"Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic."

"The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing."