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You are not hurt are you, or bruised?” “No,” she said shortly. “What are you complaining about then?” “I am not used to being treated in such a manner,” she said, angry again, for he was making her look like a fool. “No, of course not,” he
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“Apartments aren't supposed to be investments, Zara replied gloomily.
What are they supposed to be, then?
Homes.”
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What are they supposed to be, then?
Homes.”
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“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― The Tempest
― The Tempest
“Nothing is more pathetic than people who run around in circles, “delving into the things that lie beneath” and conducting investigations into the souls of the people around them, never realizing that all you have to do is to be attentive to the power inside you and worship it sincerely. To worship it is to keep it from being muddied with turmoil and becoming aimless and dissatisfied with nature—divine and human. What is divine deserves our respect because it is good; what is human deserves our affection because it is like us. And our pity too, sometimes, for its inability to tell good from bad—as terrible a blindness as the kind that can’t tell white from black.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“You have only seen the least of what I can do.”
― The Cruel Prince
― The Cruel Prince
“Mark Twain once told a story about a man who scoured the planet looking for the greatest general who ever lived. When the man was informed that the person he sought had already died and gone to heaven, he made a trip to the Pearly Gates to look for him. Saint Peter pointed at a regular-looking Joe. “That isn’t the greatest of all generals,” protested the man. “I knew that person when he lived on Earth, and he was only a cobbler.” “I know that,” said Saint Peter, “but if he had been a general, he would have been the greatest of them all.”
― Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
― Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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