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The Eye of the World (Wheel of Time, #1)

by Robert Jordan

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Amanda’s Quotes

“Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity?”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

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“Paracelsus

At times I almost dream
I too have spent a life the sages’ way,
And tread once more familiar paths. Perchance
I perished in an arrogant self-reliance
Ages ago; and in that act a prayer
For one more chance went up so earnest, so
Instinct with better light let in by death,
That life was blotted out — not so completely
But scattered wrecks enough of it remain,
Dim memories, as now, when once more seems
The goal in sight again.”
― Robert Browning

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“If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

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“We do not know what things look like, as you say," the beast said. "We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing, this seeing.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

tags: blindness

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“There is a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining "punishment" and "being supposed to punish" hurts it, arouses fear in it. "Is it not enough to render him undangerous? Why still punish?
Punishing itself is terrible." With this question, herd morality, the morality of timidity, draws its ultimate consequence.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil