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"You’ve just mentioned the price that has to be paid…Pride, freedom…Knowledge. Whether at the beginning or at the end, you have to pay for everything. Even courage, don’t you think? And don’t you think a lot of courage is needed to fight God?"
— Arturo Pérez-Reverte (El Club Dumas)

4 people liked it

"The past is always tense, the future perfect"
— Zadie Smith

26 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
11,160 people liked it

"Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

25 people liked it

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
6,662 people liked it

"Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself."
— Lois McMaster Bujold (A Civil Campaign)

tags: inspirational, sci-fi, vorkosigan
79 people liked it

"I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune."
— Lois McMaster Bujold (Shards of Honour)

27 people liked it

"But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?"
— Lois McMaster Bujold (Barrayar)

10 people liked it

"The blade must past threw the fire, else it breaks."
— Margaret Weis (The Soulforge)

6 people liked it

"A mage's soul is forged in the crucible of the magic"
— Margaret Weis (The Soulforge)

3 people liked it

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

tags: inspirational
216 people liked it

"This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper."
— T.S. Eliot

tags: apocalypse, despair, global-warming, poetry
109 people liked it

"April is the cruelest month, breeding
lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
memory and desire, stirring
dull roots with spring rain."
— T.S. Eliot (The Waste Land)

tags: april, cruelty, poetry, seasons, weather
48 people liked it

"I will show you fear in a handful of dust."
— T.S. Eliot

tags:
25 people liked it

"I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter."
— T.S. Eliot

tags: reading, winter
12 people liked it

"We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger."
— T.S. Eliot (The Cocktail Party)

14 people liked it

"No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
Am an attendant lord, one that will do
To swell a progress, start a scene or two,
Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,
Deferential, glad to be of use,
Politic, cautious, and meticulous;
Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;
At times, indeed, almost ridiculous—
Almost, at times, the Fool."
— T.S. Eliot

tags: fool, humility
12 people liked it

"Teach us to care and not to care"
— T.S. Eliot

11 people liked it

"These fragments I have shored against my ruins"
— T.S. Eliot (The Waste Land and Other Poems)

tags: age, aging, fall, nostalgia, past
8 people liked it

"The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first."
— T.S. Eliot

tags: despair, life-and-death, poetry
5 people liked it

"We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;"
— T.S. Eliot

tags: philosophy, poetry
33 people liked it

"I can connect
Nothing with nothing"
— T.S. Eliot

7 people liked it

"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large -- I contain multitudes."
— Walt Whitman

244 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
16,070 people liked it

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
9,382 people liked it

"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."
— Robert Maynard Hutchins

tags: exercise, humor, laziness
5,895 people liked it

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain

tags: action, actions, disappointed, disappointment, discover, dream, dreams, explore, sail
7,750 people liked it

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: strength
5,317 people liked it

"An honor is not diminished for being shared."
— Lois McMaster Bujold (Shards of Honour)

4 people liked it

""War is like any other bad relationship. Of course you want out, but at what price? And perhaps more importantly, once you get out, will you be any better off?"
- Quellcrist Falconer"
— Richard K. Morgan

3 people liked it

"It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party."
— Nick Hornby

tags: music
497 people liked it

"Sleep is good, he said, And books are better."
— George R.R. Martin

tags: books, reading
19 people liked it

"They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth. "
— George R.R. Martin

tags: fantasy, heaven
19 people liked it

"Winter is coming."
— George R.R. Martin (A Game of Thrones)

tags: winter
18 people liked it

"Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'

'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him."
— George R.R. Martin (A Game of Thrones)

tags: bravery, courage, fear
17 people liked it

"I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments."
— John Barrowman

tags: happiness, humor, music
74 people liked it

"25 And the Lord spake unto the Angel that guarded the eastern gate, saying 'Where is the flaming sword that was given unto thee?'
26 And the Angel said, 'I had it here only a moment ago, I must have put it down some where, forget my own head next.'
27 And the Lord did not ask him again."
— Neil Gaiman (Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch)

tags: angel, god, heaven, humor
37 people liked it

"Oh, I get it," I said. "It's a parable. Cute. Let's go eat."
— Christopher Moore (Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal)

34 people liked it

""Butler could kill you a hundred different ways without use of his armoury. Though I'm sure one would be quite sufficient."
(Artemis Fowl)"
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl)

tags: artemis, fowl
84 people liked it

"If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written."
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl)

182 people liked it

"God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time"
— Neil Gaiman (Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch)

156 people liked it

"If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart."
— Lois McMaster Bujold (Labyrinth)

8 people liked it

"One step at a time,” Vorkosigan returned grimly, “I can walk around the world. Watch me."
— Lois McMaster Bujold (Barrayar)

3 people liked it

"Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart."
— Lois McMaster Bujold (Memory)

12 people liked it

"When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it. "
— Lois McMaster Bujold

tags: consequences
11 people liked it

"Money, power, sex ... and elephants."
— Lois McMaster Bujold (Memory)

8 people liked it

"Never do yourself, what you can con professionals into doing for you."
— Lois McMaster Bujold

7 people liked it

"My home is not a place, it is people."
— Lois McMaster Bujold (Barrayar)

5 people liked it

"Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards."
— Lois McMaster Bujold (A Civil Campaign)

5 people liked it

"A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind."
— Lois McMaster Bujold

3 people liked it

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