“Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast... Viscosity and Velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination; velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled, or because inner life is transfixingly busy.”
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“What must be done must be done, whatever the price, the cost, the pain. One day we all must walk through fire.”
― Macbeth
― Macbeth
“In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.”
― Macbeth
― Macbeth
“Do I dream you? Or you dream me? Or does someone, something bigger than all' - her hands swept the vast constellations above them - 'this beauteous calamity, dream everything we see and more?”
― Macbeth
― Macbeth
“And still you'll hesitate to tell him, won't you? Why? Because you're a woman? Is your destiny such a small thing then? To keep your legs open and your mouth shut?”
― Macbeth
― Macbeth
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