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“From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all. But whether or not one can live with one's passions, whether or not one can accept their law, which is to burn the heart they simultaneously exalt - that is the whole question.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

“Evil will never find peace. It may triumph, but it will never find peace.”
― L.J. Smith, The Awakening

“Well, the name is Salvatore. As in Savior - Damon Salvatore”
― LJ Smith

“When people see good, they expect good. I don't want to have to live up to anyone's expectations.”
― L.J. Smith

“I had a plan. I wanted to change who I was. Give my life to someone new. Someone without the past. Without the pain. Someone alive.”
― stephan salvatore

“If the day should ever come when we must go, if some day we are compelled to leave the scene of history, we will slam the door so hard that the universe will shake and mankind will stand back in stupefaction..”
― Joseph Goebbels

“Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.”
― Robert James Waller, The Bridges Of Madison County

“Complex things are easy to do. Simplicity's the real challenge.”
― Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County

“I don't like feeling sorry for myself. That's not who I am. And most of the time I don't feel that way. Instead, I am grateful for having at least found you. We could have flashed by one another like two pieces of cosmic dust.

God or the universe or whatever one chooses to label the great systems of balance and order does not recognize Earth-time. To the universe, four days is no different than four billion light years. I try to keep that in mind.

But, I am, after all, a man. And all the philosophic rationalizations I can conjure up do not keep me from wanting you, every day, every moment, the merciless wail of time, of time I can never spend with you, deep within my head.

I love you, profoundly and completely. And I always will.

The last cowboy,

Robert”
― Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County

“Do you wrestle with dreams?
Do you contend with shadows?
Do you move in a kind of sleep?
Time has slipped away.
Your life is stolen.
You tarried with trifles,
Victim of your folly.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Mankind has only one science… its the science of discontent.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“What senses do we lack that we cannot see or hear another world all around us?”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed. I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible cage.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“There is in each of us an ancient force that takes and an ancient force that gives. A man finds little difficulty facing that place within himself where the taking force dwells, but it’s almost impossible for him to see into the giving force without changing into something other than man. For a woman, the situation is reversed…These things are so ancient within us…that they’re ground into each separate cell of our bodies…It’s as easy to be overwhelmed by giving as by taking.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“I see us giving love to each other in a time of quiet between storms. It's what we were meant to do.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“The test of a man isn’t what you think he’ll do. It’s what he actually does.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Never obliterate a man unthinkingly, the way an entire fief might do it through some due process of law. Always do it for an overriding purpose—and know your purpose!”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“The night is a tunnel, she thought, a hole into tomorrow...”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Prophets have a way of dying by violence.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Desperate people are the most dangerous.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Hard tasks need hard ways.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Maud’Dib could indeed, see the Future, but you must understand the limits of this power. Think of sight. You have eyes, yet cannot see without light. If you are on the floor of a valley, you cannot see beyond the valley. Just so, Maud’Dib could not always choose to look across the mysterious terrain. He tells us that a single obscure decision of prophecy, perhaps the choice of one word over another, could change the entire aspect of the future. He tells us “The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.” And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning “That path leads ever down into stagnation.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“The day the flesh shapes and the flesh the day shapes.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“My lungs taste the air of Time,
Blown past falling sands…”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“The Proximity of a Desirable Thing Tempts One to Overindulgence. On That Path Lies Danger.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“To accept a little death is worse than death itself.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune