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“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
― Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
― Beatrix Potter

“Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici (by the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe)”
― Faust

“هيَ السِّحْـرُ إلا أنّ للسّحْرِ رُقْيةً

وإنِّيَ لا أَلقَـى لهَا الدّهْـرَ رَاقيَا”
― قيس بن الملوح, ديوان قيس بن الملوح: مجنون ليلى

“نحن أنفسنا الفردوس.. ونحن الجحيم.”
― عمر الخيام

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo
Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca.
(The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet