Socrates was as far from being handsome as even a philosopher can be.
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“I will dance to the music of words, for one more time.”
― The Garden of Evening Mists
― The Garden of Evening Mists

“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting,” I said, “but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Where’s evil? It’s that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. It’s that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive. “It’s that part of an imbecile,” I said, “that punishes and vilifies and makes war gladly.”
― Mother Night
― Mother Night

“Bats are flooding out from the hundreds of caves that perforate these mountainsides. I watch them plunge into the mists without any hesitation, trusting in the echoes and silences in which they fly. Are all of us the same, I wonder, navigating our lives by interpreting the silences between words spoken, analyzing the returning echoes of our memory in order to chart the terrain, in order to make sense of the world around us?”
― The Garden of Evening Mists
― The Garden of Evening Mists

“After we finished hanging Hoess,” Mengel said to me, “I packed up my clothes to go home. The catch on my suitcase was broken, so I buckled it shut with a big leather strap. Twice within an hour I did the very same job—once to Hoess and once to my suitcase. Both jobs felt about the same.”
― Mother Night
― Mother Night

“As David Carr of the New York Times says, “Writing is less about beckoning the muse than hanging in until the typing becomes writing.”
― Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content
― Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content

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