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“Results will be Our Friend and will make Friends”
― Jan Jansen Easy Branches

“Life is not about missing what is gone but counting and cherishing what you have.”   He”
― J. Alchem, The Highway Man

“What saves us is efficiency—the devotion to efficiency.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“We live as we dream--alone....”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“O where shall I find a virtuous woman, for her price is above rubies.”
― Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

“One's prime is the moment one was born for. ”
― Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

“Writers should measure their life not in years, but in moments of writing.”
― J. Alchem

“A writer in pain is as blessed as a couple in rain.”
― J. Alchem, A Road Not Traveled

“I know she wouldn’t like it, but the possessiveness I feel for her tells me unequivocally how serious I am. She’s mine. I mean, I know she’s not mine mine, I’m a liberated guy, she’s her own person, nobody owns anyone, that’s not what I’m saying. Oh fuck it, who am I kidding? I’m saying she’s mine and I’ll pound any motherfucker who tries to get between us.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Sin With Me

“At my age one's seldom amazed," he said, smiling. "Marriage is too absurd in any case. It begins and continues for such very slight reasons. The social business props it up on one side, and the theological business on the other, but neither of them are marriage, are they? I've friends who can't remember why they married, no more can their wives. I suspect that it mostly happens haphazard, though afterwards various noble reasons are invented. About marriage I am cynical.”
― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

“Remember that we must all die: all these personal relations we try to
live by are temporary. I used to feel death selected people, it is a notion one gets from novels, because some of the characters are usually left talking at the end. Now 'death spares no one' begins to be real.”
― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

“It’s okay if you want to bitch me out, you know. You don’t always have to be so understanding.” I shrug. “I’m a relationship counselor, Brody. I’ve seen the best and worst of human nature. I’m not going to bitch you out because you firmly closed a door and took a shower.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Sin With Me

“He was inaccurate because he was sensitive.”
― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

“God and religion before every thing!' Dante cried. 'God and religion before the world.'

Mr Casey raised his clenched fist and brought it down on the table with a crash.

'Very well then,' he shouted hoarsely, 'if it comes to that, no God for Ireland!'

'John! John!' cried Mr Dedalus, seizing his guest by the coat sleeve.

Dante stared across the table, her cheeks shaking. Mr Casey struggled up from his chair and bent across the table towards her, scraping the air from before his eyes with one hand as though he were tearing aside a cobweb.

'No God for Ireland!' he cried, 'We have had too much God in Ireland. Away with God!”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“He wanted to meet in the real world the unsubstantial image which his soul so constantly beheld.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“Pride and hope and desire like crushed herbs in his heart sent up vapours of maddening incense before the eyes of his mind.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“God and the Blessed Virgin were too far from him: God was too great and stern and the Blessed Virgin too pure and holy.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“What did it proft a man to gain the whole world if he lost his soul?”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“From the evil seed of lust all other deadly sins had sprung forth: pride in himself and contempt of others, covetousness in using money for the purchase of unlawful pleasures, envy of those whose vices he could not reach to and calumnious murmuring against the pious, gluttonous enjoyment of food, the dull glowering anger amid which he brooded upon his longing, the swamp of spiritual and bodily sloth in which his whole being had sunk.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“We’re as old as we feel, Johnny.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“Words which he did not understand he said over and over to himself till he had learnt them by heart: and through them he had glimpses of the real world about them.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”
― Emily Brontë

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

“The world,” Aelin said, “will be saved and remade by the dreamers, Rolfe.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

“A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”
― Frida Kahlo

“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
― Frida Kahlo