You & I, the moneyed, the privileged, the fortunate, shall not fare so badly in this world, provided our luck holds. What of it if our consciences itch? Why undermine the dominance of our race, our gu...
You are the man. You have to take your dignity and self respect to the pawnbrokers.
You ask a starved man, Gerritszoon says, to drink to a glutton.
You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.
You can’t go changing what you’ve already set down, not without botching things up even more
You groan and shake your head, Sixsmith, I know, but you smile too, which is why I love you.
You have to know someone intimately to be able to love them. So love at sight is a contradiction in terms. Unless in that first sight there's some sort of mystical gigabyte downloading of information...
You imagine blank verse is a liberation, but no. Discard rhyme, you discard a parachute...
You look for your meaning. You find it, and at that moment, your meaning changes, and you have to start all over again.
You said you envied your uncritical, unthinking sisters.That's not quite the same as wishing to be one
You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.
You underestimate humanity's ability to bring such evil into being.
You were five or six, Raf. When you washed up on the rocks below you were in shock, you had hypothermia, you’d seen slaughter at close quarters, you’d drifted for heaven only knows how long in the col...
Perpetual encagement endows any mirage of salvation with credibility. Ascension creates a hunger sharp enough to consume the subject’s sanity,
Your employers evince great faith in your talents, Mr Ewing, to entrust you with business neccessitating such a long & arduous voyage. I replied that, yes, I was a senior enough notary to be entrusted...
Your leaders must know powerful magic. Yes, said one of the women. The magic is called Marx, Stalin, Lenin and Class Dialectics. It didn't sound like very powerful magic to me.
Your life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet, what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?
Your place does keep you sane, but can also keep you lonely.
Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality
[...] Senecas Warnung an Nero: Ganz gleich, wie viele von uns du tötest, dein Nachfolger wird nicht darunter sein
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