“Drink wine and look at the moon
and think of all the civilisations
the moon has seen passing by.”
― The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
and think of all the civilisations
the moon has seen passing by.”
― The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
“Difference in opinions has cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether the juice of a certain berry be blood or wine.”
― Gulliver’s Travels
― Gulliver’s Travels
“How could you believe or disbelieve anything anymore? Four maybe five million men killed and none of them wanting to die while hundreds maybe thousands were left crazy or blind or crippled and couldn’t die no matter how hard they tried.”
― Johnny Got His Gun
― Johnny Got His Gun
“THE WITCH.
[dancing].
O I shall lose my wits, I fear,
Do I, again, see Squire Satan here!
MEPHISTOPHELES.
Woman, the name offends my ear!
THE WITCH.
Why so? What has it done to you?
MEPHISTOPHELES.
It has long since to fable-books been banished;
But men are none the better for it; true,
The wicked one, but not the wicked ones, has vanished.”
― Faust
[dancing].
O I shall lose my wits, I fear,
Do I, again, see Squire Satan here!
MEPHISTOPHELES.
Woman, the name offends my ear!
THE WITCH.
Why so? What has it done to you?
MEPHISTOPHELES.
It has long since to fable-books been banished;
But men are none the better for it; true,
The wicked one, but not the wicked ones, has vanished.”
― Faust
“Yet though I must lose my life, fear shall never make me change colour.”
― Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
― Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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