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“You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire”
― On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
― On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
“...to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of man.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.”
― All the Pretty Horses
― All the Pretty Horses
“He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower.”
― All the Pretty Horses
― All the Pretty Horses
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