“Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.”
― History of the Peloponnesian War
― History of the Peloponnesian War
“When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my father dead, my brother dead, my mother faraway, my sister and my wife far away, nothing here but my own tragic hands that once were guarded by a world, a sweet attention, that now are left to guide and disappear their own way into the common dark of all our deaths, sleeping in me raw bed, alone and stupid: with just this one pride and consolation: my broke heart in the general despair and opened up inwards to the Lord, I made a supplication in this dream”
― Visions of Cody
― Visions of Cody
“Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that’s the sound the world makes when it pisses itself.”
― The Way of Kings
― The Way of Kings
“He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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