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“One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he is more learned, but that another is richer in reason scarcely any will confess: Rare is he who will concede genius.”
― Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Poems, Protest, and a Dream: Selected Writings

“Home is where somebody notices your absence.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Any act can be a prayer, if done as well as we are able.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“My sister has mistaken me for a mushroom. She keeps me in the dark and feeds me shit.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there. ”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project

“When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project

“I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete. He had finished the work of becoming himself, long before any of us could even imagine such a feat was possible. ”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project

“Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project

“Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever. ”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project

“Chief Shippy stands frozen, holding his breath, exhaling with relief as the young man dies, the gun smoke slowly moving across the room, like a school of fish.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project

“The detectives ransack the place with the passion of soldiers fighting a just war.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project

“And did the biblical Lazarus have a mother? What did she do when he was resurrected? Did he bid her good-bye before he returned to his undeath? Was he the same son to her undead as he was alive? I read that he sailed to Marseilles with his sisters afterward, where he may or may not have died again.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project

“It was different in America: the incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth--reality is the fastest American commodity.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project

“Lord, why did you leave me in these woods?”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project

“Where can you go from nowhere, except deeper into nowhere?”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project

“Nobody deserves death, yet everybody gets it.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
― Francis Bacon, The Essays

“The vast world rainless, one may bid adieu
To charity and penance.”
― Tiruvalluvar, Kural

“Virtue alone is happiness; all else
Is else, and without praise.”
― Tiruvalluvar, Kural

“The immoral can no more earn respect
Than the envious be rich.”
― Tiruvalluvar, Kural

“Those are fools however learned
Who have not learned to walk with the world.”
― Tiruvalluvar, Kural

“Conquer with forbearance
The excesses of insolence.”
― Tiruvalluvar, Kural

“Great wealth, like a crowd at a concert,
Gathers and melts.”
― Tiruvalluvar, Kural

“Cling to the One who clings to nothing;
And so clinging, cease to cling.”
― Tiruvalluvar, Kural

“Those who have wisdom have all:
Fools with all have nothing.”
― Tiruvalluvar, Kural

“When the rare chance comes, seize it
To do the rare deed.”
― Tiruvalluvar, Kural

“It is compassion, the most gracious of virtues,
Which moves the world.”
― Tiruvalluvar, Kural

“It is politics to please and hoodwink those
Who flatter but despise us.”
― Tiruvalluvar, Kural