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“I don't worry about traditions overmuch. The fact is, I could change my mind as to whether I want something. For one reason or another, it could lose its appeal.”
― Naked in Death
― Naked in Death
“If a woman could win love with her body, the world would have no bastards.”
― A Lady's Lesson in Scandal
― A Lady's Lesson in Scandal
“ANTISEMITISM, a secular nineteenth-century ideology—which in name, though not in argument, was unknown before the 1870’s—and religious Jew-hatred, inspired by the mutually hostile antagonism of two conflicting creeds, are obviously not the same;”
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
“Some men […] choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always better to choose than to be forced.
A man who is forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strings of those who forced him.”
― The Great Hunt
A man who is forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strings of those who forced him.”
― The Great Hunt
“Sometimes there is no happy choice, Sam, only one less grievous than the others.”
― A Feast for Crows
― A Feast for Crows
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