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"I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it."
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"I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it."
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"The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil."
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"The unchangeable price of everything more precious and valuable is blood."
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"You must be prepared to sacrifice your self-love to the cause, you must be ready to treat the cause as if it is life itself."
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"Love costs us much, but we still need it. Wisdom costs us much, but we still seek it. Faith costs us much, but we still practice it. Life costs us much, but we still desire it."
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"We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me."
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"O my mighty sisters and brothers, forget not that the ideal of humanity is the search of truth. In this pursuit, countless souls have sacrificed themselves in the past. And in this pursuit, countless more shall need to sacrifice themselves."
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"Someone needs to fight, someone needs to sacrifice, someone needs to inspire, someone needs to be a hero."
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"Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response."
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"No; you shall tear yourself away, none shall help you: you shall yourself pluck out your right eye; yourself cut off your right hand: your heart shall be the victim, and you the priest to transfix it."
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"I wonder. Of course maybe that isn't what they figure to do. Maybe they aren't going to do any such thing. But it's natural that's what they would do and I heard that word."
Curiosity
"I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it."
Sacrifice
"You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his."
Spiritual
"You know I'm no squealer, Harry.''You're a rummy. But no matter how rum dumb you get, if you ever talk about that, I promise you.''I'm a good man,' he said. 'You oughtn't to talk to me like that.''They can't make it fast enough to keep you a good man,' I told him. But I didn't worry about him any more because who was going to believe him?"
Friendship
"Cowardice as distinguished from panic is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination."
Psychology
"When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve."
Love
"Trying to write something of permanent value is a full-time job."
Creativity
"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."
Books
"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."
Death
"Hem,' he said, and I knew he was a critic now, since, in conversation, they put your name at the beginning of a sentence rather than at the end."
Criticism
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