“Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.”
― A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
― A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love.”
― The Children of Men
― The Children of Men
“Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.”
― The Children of Men
― The Children of Men
“It was like there was some parallel universe we all vanished off to where we had all this sex.”
― Never Let Me Go
― Never Let Me Go
“That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
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