“But cruel are the times, when we are traitors,
And do not know ourselves; when we hold rumour
From what we fear, yet know not what we fear,
But float upon a wild and violent sea
Each way and none”
― Macbeth
And do not know ourselves; when we hold rumour
From what we fear, yet know not what we fear,
But float upon a wild and violent sea
Each way and none”
― Macbeth
“I was a passive aggressive coward. That sort of thing clung to your flesh like a smell, rot turned inside out. People could sense it on you; it caused them to be distrustful. It was hard to make friends when you had the smell, hard to keep them when you did make them. You held back from them and they held back from you, an even trade of nothingness.”
― Atheists Who Kneel and Pray
― Atheists Who Kneel and Pray
“Let us remember that a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend. It can be so, sometimes”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
“Fear is typically one-part fact and about ten-parts fiction. And that kind of formula grows things real big, real fast.”
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“Levin had long before made the observation that when one is uncomfortable with people from their being excessively amenable and meek, one is apt very soon after to find things intolerable from their touchiness and irritability.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
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