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Quotes by Author
"It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof of that: It can be done."
84
"But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."
84
"'Someday' is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you."
84
"To achieve accurate knowledge of others, if such a thing were possible, we could only ever arrive at it through the slow and unsure recognition of our own initial optical inaccuracies. However, such knowledge is not possible: for, while our vision of others is being adjusted, they, who are not made of mere brute matter, are also changing; we think we have managed to see them more clearly, but they shift; and when we believe we have them fully in focus, it is merely our older images of them that we have clarified, but which are themselves already out of date."
84
"Allowing yourself to smile takes 99% of the effort."
84
"For we think back through our mothers if we are women."
83
"There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will."
83
"I will never leave you for I am intertwined in the fabric of you're being and my life blood's essence pulsates through your'e veins."
83
"Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!"
82
"Fear is the chain that wraps around a free man's leg."
82
"No matter what you do always strive to be the best."
82
"The stranded Daoine Sidhe knights of the Dark Court gathered at the ring of ancient standing stones under the pale light of the harvest moon. Whenever the Daoine Sidhe gathered, they raised the natural energies of the world around them."
82
"People need other people to feel things for them," she said. "It gets lonely to feel things all by yourself."
82
"I sheathed my blade and glared at him. "And here I almost thought you weren't a complete bastard.""Well, that's your mistake, not mine."
81
"Some people will tell you werewolves can only shapechange under a full moon, but people also say there's no such things as ghosts."
81
"It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution."
81
"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable."
81
"If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."
81
"The most important thing you can do for yourself each day is to create (in and around you) an environment that keeps you constantly inspired because when you're inspired, there is absolutely nothing you cannot do."
80
"Painters--and storytellers, including poets and playwrights and historians, they are the justices of the Supreme Court of Good and Evil, of which I am now a member, and to which you may belong someday!"
80
"As soon as you wink, you close your eyes to reality."
80
"When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness."
79
"We fill our lives with meaning by serving endlessly and by learning to transcend our consciousness to a higher consciousness."
79
"Compromise isn't so painful if you're the one setting the terms."
79
"Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement."
79
"Men have become the tools of their tools."
78
"When nothing else subsists from the past, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered...the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls...bearing resiliently, on tiny and almost impalpable drops of their essence, the immense edifice of memory."
78
"You think the things you can touch and feel are the things that are real, but they are not. Over time, they all get old and decline. The people, the houses, the rocks and the mountains: one day they will all crumble. This is because they are not as real as the things that last forever. It is another one of the lessons we come to teach."
78
"After the first blush of sin comes its indifference."
78
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