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“I am drowning, my dear, in seas of fire.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“First and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered By self is, of all things. the most shameful and objectionable.”
― The Republic
― The Republic
“We are paper thin. We exist by chance between the percentages, temporarily. And this is the best and the worst part, the time factor. And there’s nothing you can do about it. You can sit on top of a mountain and meditate for decades and nothing will change. You can change yourself to be acceptable, but maybe this is wrong. Perhaps we think too much. Feel more, think less.”
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“If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.”
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“What do you think spies are: priests, saints, and martyrs? They’re a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists, and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives. Do you think they sit like monks in London balancing the rights and wrongs? I’d have killed Mundt if I could, I hate his guts; but not now. It so happens that they need him. They need him so that the great moronic mass that you admire can sleep soundly in their beds at night. They need him for the safety of ordinary, crummy people like you and me.”
― The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
― The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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