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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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"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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"You will suffer, son of Hades!' What else is new? Nico thought."
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"She was a rule breaker, never settling her fierce spirit for things built of structure."
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"Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!"
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"I'd rather be pissed off then pissed on."
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"Beneath hot sun, desert roses bloomed. Under cold moon, I still refused to."
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"Those who have been insulted by ungodliness and injustice could be in a good or better position to stand for or with those that are being insulted by the same."
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"I will not be my father's dog."
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"It was possible that I'd thrown one too many Molotov cocktails over God's fence."
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"Cardinal Campeggio has implored Katherine to bow to the king's will, accept that her marriage is invalid and retire to a convent. Certainly, she says sweetly, she will become a nun: if the king will become a monk."
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"Little did they suspect that the years would end by wearing away the disharmony.Little did they suspect that La Mancha and Montiel and the knight's frail figure would be, for the future, no less poetic than Sinbad's haunts or Ariosto's vast geographies.For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end."
Literature
"Life itself is a quotation."
Life
"He [Omar Khayyam] is an atheist, but knows how to interpret in orthodox style the most difficult passages of the Koran; for every educated man is a theologian and faith is not a requisite."
Philosophy
"It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death."
Mortality
"Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual."
Reading
"So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, that I associated them immediately with literature."
Art
"I reread these negative remarks and realize that I do not know whether music can despair of music or marble of marble. I do know that literature is an art that can foresee the time when it will be silenced, an art that can become inflamed with its own virtue, fall in love with its own decline, and court its own demise."
Art
"It must be that I am not made to be a dead man, but these places and this discussion seem like a dream, and not a dream dreamed by me but by someone else still to be born."
Philosophy
"When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation."
Legacy
"The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps."
Fate
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