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#3

“Why should I give up revenge? On behalf of what? Moral principles? And what of the higher order of things, in which evil deeds are punished? For you, a philosopher and ethicist, an act of revenge is bad, disgraceful, unethical and illegal. But I ask: where is the punishment for evil? Who has it and grants access? The Gods, in which you do not believe? The great demiurge-creator, which you decided to replace the gods with? Or maybe the law? [...] I know what evil is afraid of. Not your ethics, Vysogota, not your preaching or moral treaties on the life of dignity. Evil is afraid of pain, mutilation, suffering and at the end of the day, death! The dog howls when it is badly wounded! Writhing on the ground and growls, watching the blood flow from its veins and arteries, seeing the bone that sticks out from a stump, watching its guts escape its open belly, feeling the cold as death is about to take them. Then and only then will evil begin to beg, 'Have mercy! I regret my sins! I'll be good, I swear! Just save me, do not let me waste away!'. Yes, hermit. That is the way to fight evil! When evil wants to harm you, inflict pain - anticipate them, it's best if evil does not expect it. But if you fail to prevent evil, if you have been hurt by evil, then avenge him! It is best when they have already forgotten, when they feel safe. Then pay them in double. In triple. An eye for an eye? No! Both eyes for an eye! A tooth for a tooth? No! All their teeth for a tooth! Repay evil! Make it wail in pain, howling until their eyes pop from their sockets. And then, you can look under your feet and boldly declare that what is there cannot endanger anyone, cannot hurt anyone. How can someone be a danger, when they have no eyes? How can someone hurt when they have no hands? They can only wait until they bleed to death.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Wieża Jaskółki

tags: afraid, belief, blood, bone, cold, death, dignity, ethics, evil, fear, fight, gods, good, guts, harm, higher-order, illegal, law, mercy, morality, mutilation, pain, philosophy, preaching, principles, punishment, regret, repay, revenge, sins, suffering, surrender, unethical, wail, writhe

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#3

“If she had a flaw, it was that she was the Best, and she knew she was the Best. Some called it arrogance. She called it competence untainted by performative humility.”
― Brigitte Knightley, The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy

tags: arrogance, brains, competence, confidence, smart

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#3

“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.”
― Joseph Brodsky

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#4

“Avoid long paragraphs, always. Stick to two or three sentences, tops. Then try to avoid long blocks of consecutive paragraphs. Use bolding, bullets, charts and Axioms to break up the flow. Big blobs of bloviation bite (say that five times fast”
― Jim Vandehei, Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less

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#5

“ Two daiquiris
withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room
and one told the other a lie.”
― John Berryman, The Dream Songs

tags: metonymy

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#6

“I can’t help but ask, “Do you know where you are?”
She turns to me with a foreboding glare. “Do you?”
― Nathan Reese Maher

tags: abandoned, amnesia, androids, apocalypse, carrack, cityisle, cityspire, count, damnation, death, desolate, dreams, emily-dickinson, empty, fedora, ghosts, gothic, greek-mythology, haunting, haunts, horace-walpole, jazz, life, magic, magick, mannequins, masquerade, music, phillip-k-dick, piano, poems, puddles, rain, reflections, romance, sacrifice, science-fiction, sex, shakespeare, ships, songs, specters, spectre, storms, tempest, waking, water

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#7

“So what is it about evenings that makes you pensive and thoughtful? Is it the slightly wafting cold breeze that beckons you on a journey of soulful serenity? A cornucopia of feelings, emotions and nostalgic charm that reverberate into the mystic beats of a faraway drum.”
― Avijeet Das

tags: cornucopia, drums, evenings, journey-of-lifejourney-quotes, nostalgia-love-memories, nostalgia-quotes, soulful-quotes, travel-quotestraveler

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#8

“I know I can’t drive a truck. And I can’t run a bank. And I can’t count. And I can’t lead a movement. But I can f*ck up your mind.”
― James Baldwin

tags: division-of-labor, division-of-labour, iconoclast, interdependence, power, power-of-words, synergy, thinkers, thought-provoking, wisdom

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#9

“Two types of people walk this earth, The formed and the conformed.”
― Oluseyi Akinbami

tags: difference, iconoclast, species

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#10

“Lilith Wilde is more than just a pseudonym; she’s the embodiment of my romance literary rebirth. Think of her as the writer who guzzles coffee like water, who gets hit by writer’s block like it’s a sport, who eavesdrops on strangers for dialogue inspiration, and who looks to cats for a muse (because why not?). With Lilith Wilde, I go back into romance, but this time, with a flavor that’s as dark as my coffee.”
― Neda Aria

tags: pseudonym

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#11

“He wishes he were a skilled poet, it would fit his chosen image perfectly; the poor, tragic, tortured artiste. But he has no talent for words, neither for paints nor music; his uselessness is tremendously total.”
― Curtis Ackie, Goldfish Tears

tags: absurdism, alchemy, magic-realism, magical-realism, surrealism

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#12

“It was a large room, heavily outfitted with the usual badly ventilated furnaces, rows of bubbling crucibles, and one stuffed alligator. Things floated in jars. The air smelled of a limited life expectancy.”
― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms

tags: alchemy, science

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#13

“A step back doesn’t stop a man meant to move a kilometre”
― Daniel Derrick Mwesigye, Divine alchemy : The Sacred Refining of a Human Life

tags: alchemy, aliveness, awareness, divine, inspirational-quotes

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#14

“I was not that fond of hens, as I have always preferred an animal with fur to a gaggle of frowsy, cackling birds scratching in the dirt; but if you want their eggs you have to put up with their unruly ways.”
― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

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#15

“Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee and this is thy divinity which stirs within me...All comes from thee, great-great SENSORIUM of the world!”
― Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey

tags: sensibility

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#16

“Claude rubs the back of his neck and wrinkles his nose, about to tell me he was never sad. I believe this is called bravado and is not limited to lawyers, or even men, although that combination makes it almost unavoidable.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

tags: bravado, humor, lawyers, men

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#17

“Do not tell me about your principles, for words are easy to craft and talk is cheap. Rather, let me see you live them out in the sentence and syntax of everyday life. And let me see that not so that I know that you understand the principles that you espouse, for that is easy. Rather, I want to know that you understand the sacrifice of living them out, and that the weight of the principle offsets the sacrifice of carrying it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: belief, espouse, ethics, faith, morals, principles, sacrifice, values

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#18

“Some hats can only be worn if you're willing to be jaunty, to set them at an angle and to walk beneath them with a spring in your stride as if you're only a step away from dancing. They demand a lot of you.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

tags: hats, jaunty

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#19

“We were perfectly decorous together. It took the will of both of us. I trusted him with me, and myself with him.”
― Ronald Frame, Havisham

tags: decorous, together, trust

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#20

“You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can't understand it.”
― Malcolm Bradbury, Eating People Is Wrong

tags: defining, definition, eating-people-is-wrong, grandiose, humor, satire, simple-terms, understanding, verbosity

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#21

“Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun, and others have had like similes. I am more humble. I am a mere street scavenger (chiffonier) of science. With my hook in my hand and my basket on my back, I go about the streets of science, collecting what I find.”
― François Magendie

tags: chiffonier, comparison, discovery, grandiose, greatness, humbleness, louis-xiv, passion, scavenger, science

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#22

“It's been going on for days now! On and on and on for days! If I hear one more sexual-chemistry-charged and mutually misunderstood argument I'm going to shoot the pair of you!”
― Dave Stone, Doctor Who: Death and Diplomacy

tags: apropos, funny

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#23

“Reading, for me, is like this: consumptive, pleasing, calming, as much as edifying. It's how I feel after a good dinner. That's why I do it so often: It feels wonderful. The book is mind and I insert myself into it, cover it entire, ear my way through every last slash and dot. That's something you can do with a book, unlike television or movies or the Internet. You can eat it, or mark it, like a dog does on a hydrant. ”
― Tara Bray Smith

tags: book, books, internet, marginalia, movies, read, reading, television, writing

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#24

“Chris, soap people are like
us-they seldom go outdoors. And when they do, we only hear about it,
never see it. They loll about in living rooms, bedrooms, sit in the
kitchens and sip coffee or stand up and drink martinis-but never, never
go outside before our eyes. And whenever something good happens,
whenever they think they're finally going to be happy, some catastrophe
comes along to dash their hopes.”
― V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic

tags: alchohol, catastrophes, coffee, happiness, hope, hopes, indoors, loll, outdoors, outside, sitting

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#25

“On top of pique, umbrage, and ennui. Oh, the French diseases of the soul.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

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#26

“The feminist in me, who is small and sleeps a lot but can be scrappy when provoked, took umbrage at this description.”
― Mary Roach, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

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#27

“सिद्धान्त सोने का गहना है ! रोज-रोज पहनने की चीज नहीं ! शादी-ब्याह तीज-त्योहार में पहन लिया बस ! सिद्धान्त की बात साल में एक-आध बार कर ली, कर ली; बाकी अपनी पालिटिक्स करो ।” उम्मीद”
― Kashinath Singh, kashi ka assi

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#28

“उनका एक जीवन-दर्शन था–‘जो पठितव्यम् तो मरितव्यम्, न पठितव्यम् तो मरितव्यम्, फिर दाँत कटाकट क्यों करितव्यम् ?”
― Kashinath Singh, Kashi Ka Assi

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#29

“ऐ दुनियावालों! वह पलना लकड़ी है जिसपे बचपन में सोए थे! वह गुल्ली डंडा लकड़ी है, जिससे खेले थे! वह पटरी भी लकड़ी है जिसे लेकर स्कूल गए थे! वह छड़ी भी लकड़ी है जिससे मुदर्रिस की मार खाई थी! ब्याह का पीढ़ा भी लकड़ी है जिसपर ब्याह रचाया था! सुहाग की सेज भी लकड़ी है जिसपर दुल्हन के साथ सोये थे! बुढ़ापे का सहारा लाठी भी तो लकड़ी ही है!
ऐ दुनियावालों! अंतकाल जिस टिकटी पर मसान जाते हो, और जिस चिता पर तुम्हें लिटाया जाता है-सब लकड़ी है!
यह संसार कुछ नहीं, सिर्फ लकड़ी का तमाशा है!”
― Kashinath Singh, काशी का अस्सी

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#30

“Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.”
― G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology

tags: euclid, gambit, math, mathematics, reductio-ad-absurdum, risk, science, strategy, weapons

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