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#1

“In every author, let us distinguish the man from his work.”
― Voltaire

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#2

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

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#3

“She turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbor:
"Winter is dead.”
― A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young

tags: daffodils, spring, sunlight, winter

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#4

“They also held that the way to salvation was to give way to lust and temptation in all things. And no greater percentage of them turned up here than of any other religion. Amusing, isn't it?”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

tags: hell, lucifer

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#5

“They used to call the devil the father of lies. But for someone whose sin is meant to be pride, you'd think that lying would leave something of a sour taste. So my theory is that when the devil wants to get something out of you, he doesn't lie at all. He tells you the exact, literal truth. And he lets you find your own way to hell.”
― Mike Carey

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#6

“Why do they blame me for all their little failings? They use my name as if I spent my entire days sitting on their shoulders, forcing them to commit acts they would otherwise find repulsive. 'The devil made me do it.' I have never made one of them do anything. Never. They live their own tiny lives. I do not live their lives for them.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

tags: god, hell, lucifer

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#7

“Yahweh: You've been unhappy because you've desired things that cannot be.

Lucifer: That's what desire IS. The need for what we can't have. The need for what's readily available is called greed.”
― Mike Carey, Lucifer, Vol. 11: Evensong

tags: devil, god, lucifer, yahweh

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#8

“Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will
my soul do thy lord?

Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom.

Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus?

Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.
(It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery.)”
― Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

tags: damnation, faustus, hell, lucifer, mephistopheles

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#9

“No, there are no special places in hell. Hell is a democracy.”
― Mike Carey, Lucifer, Vol. 2: Children and Monsters

tags: hell, lucifer

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#10

“Announcing the intended arrival of some people is kind of like issuing a hurricane warning. ”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

tags: bad-company, company, guests, hurricane, relatives, richelle, richelle-e-goodrich, richelle-goodrich, tornado, unwanted-company, visitors

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#11

“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: decoration, friends, home, homemaking, house, visitors

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#12

“. As it says in Ecclesiastes there is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance. The wheel has turned and the season of grief has passed. I am Lazarus resurrected from an emotional grave. Like Lazarus, I suspect I will always be aware of the grave, but still I say, let the dance of life go on.”
― Melanie Jackson, A Curious Affair

tags: cats, love, mystery, romance

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#13

“It is necessary ... to yield to the storm, purchase a peace, and wait patiently for better times.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

tags: endurance, faith, life, patience, storms, strength, yielding

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#14

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
― Coco Chanel

tags: courage, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, individuality, judgment, self-determination, speaking-out, thought

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#15

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: freedom, women, writing

12740 likes

#16

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women

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#17

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: freedom, humanity, mistakes

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#18

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.”
― Jim MORRISON

tags: freedom, individuality, inspirational, mask, personality, revolution, truth

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#19

“I will bathe in your warmth ma petite. Roll you around me until my heart beats only for you. My breath will grow warm from your kiss.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Burnt Offerings

tags: anita-blake, blood, hot, jean-claude, kiss, laurell-k-hamilton, lust, romance, vampire

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#20

“Luck is the residue of design.”
― John Milton

tags: luck

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#21

“A squirrel dashed by, leaping from the apple tree to one of the white oaks a good eight feet away. He looked like a little old man in a tatty fur coat running after a bus.”
― Melanie Jackson

tags: portrait-of-a-gossip

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#22

“Do you want to know why men name their penis? So the most important decisions in their life aren't made by a stranger.”
― Linda Howard, After the Night

tags: romance, sobriquet

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#23

“Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were, you took your little circle of loneliness with you...”
― Mary Stewart, Nine Coaches Waiting

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#24

“To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening age; to remember what once you thought life could hold, after telling over with muddied and calculating fingers what it has offered; this is music, made after long silence. The soul flexes its wings, and, clumsy as any fledgling, tries the air again”
― Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills

tags: life, living, music, soul

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#25

“I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.”
― Mary Stewart, My Brother Michael

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#26

“I am nothing, yes; I am air and darkness, a word, a promise. I watch in the crystal and I wait in the hollow hills. But out there in the light I have a young king and a bright sword to do my work for me, and build what will stand when my name is only a word for forgotten songs and outworn wisdom, and when your name, Morgause, is only a hissing in the dark.”
― Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills

tags: arthurian, arthurian-legend, merlin

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#27

“If anyone was to perform the classic folly of taking a midnight stroll among the murderous gentlemen with whom the hotel was probably packed, it was not going to be me.”
― Mary Stewart, Wildfire at Midnight

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#28

“I suppose my mother could have been a witch if she had chosen to. But she met my father, who was a rather saintly clergyman, and he cancelled her out.”
― Mary Stewart, Thornyhold

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#29

“At breakfast!' said Louise in an awed voice. 'A man who can read poetry at breakfast would be capable of anything.”
― Mary Stewart, Madam, Will You Talk?

tags: poetry

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#30

“If a man goes up into Parnassus after sunset, why should he not see strange things? The gods still walk there, and a man who would not go carefully in the country of the gods is a fool.”
― Mary Stewart, My Brother Michael

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