“You know how it is when one talks of liberty. Everything seems beautifully simple. One expects every gate to open and every wall to fall flat.”
― Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina
― Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina
“Most men—it is my experience—are neither virtuous nor scoundrels, good-hearted nor bad-hearted. They are a little of one thing and a little of the other and nothing for any length of time: ignoble mediocrities.”
― Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina
― Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina
“A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“Religious fanaticism is the most dangerous form of insanity.”
― Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina
― Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina
“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter. ”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
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