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"My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet."
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Personal Development
"It takes two flints to make a fire."
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Personal Development
"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."
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Personal Development
"They were fun days, and we set the town on fire with every movie we did."
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Personal Development
"Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation."
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Personal Development
"Storytelling is what lights my fire."
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Personal Development
"I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don't they? It destroys and kills people, but humans love it. Is it because they crave their own destruction, Sam? I want to understand your kind. I am going out into the wider world, and I must learn."
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"The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes."
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"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
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"You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow."
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"We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us."
Desire
"Neglect of appearance becomes men."
Man
"Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts."
Anger
"Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love."
Love
"A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward."
Leadership
"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."
Woman
"I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement."
Achievement
"How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man."
Man
"Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low."
Money
"No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it."
Virtue
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