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Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him, and afterward when you say to this person “the world today” or “life” or “reality” he will
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“Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.”
― The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave
― The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave
“The secret is this: people gamble to lose money. They come to the casinos for the moment in which they feel alive, to ride the spinning wheel and turn with the cards and lose themselves, with the coins, in the slots. They want to know they matter. They may brag about the nights they won, the money they took from the casino, but they treasure, secretly treasure, the times they lost. It’s a sacrifice, of sorts.”
― American Gods
― American Gods
“Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.”
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“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
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