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"Perhaps I'm at last - a man - a real man - and not a mere bundle of fears and self-indulgences."

"What has happened before - many times perhaps - will probably happen again. That is why some people can prophesy what is to happen. They do not see the future, as they think, but the past, what has happened before. But something new may happen."

"Life is not easy. It provides no short cuts, no effortless escapes."

"...there is more truth to the fundamental nature of things in the most foolish fairy tales than there is in any of your complaints against life. Because all events are shaped in the end by magic- the creative magic of our feeling, imagination and will."

 "...we are acting rationally and according to our own code, but our so-called consciences were made for us - during childhood - before we could make our own code."

"All over this rotten world now, they're slamming doors in the faces of good men."

"-...to be given delicate nerves and consciousness only to feel pain, that would be a terrible cruelty"

"There's something devilishly dull about most of the rich. Too much money seems to take the taste and colour out of things."

"- Have a drink?...
- No, thank you... It is a kind of escape, and I do not need it...I am not afraid of thinking, of reality."

"A lot of my ideas are bad. This is too small, too quiet. It throws us straight back on to ourselves."

"There's a good reason why the distilleries are working at full blast. They're busy giving us Old Highland Blended Courage by the case. Faith and Hope at twelve-and-six a bottle."

"What we really are is the whole stretch of ourselves, all our time, and when we come to the end of this life, will be us - the real you, the real me."

"...Man was made for joy and woe;
And when this we rightly know,
Safely through the world we go..."

"Remember what we once were and what we thought we'd be. And now this. And it's all we have, it's us. Every step we've taken making everything worse...There's a great devil in the universe, and we call it Time."

"A seed is easily destroyed, but it might have grown into an oak tree

"...the way he has treated her has made her feel more of a fool than she really is. It's taken away all her confidence in herself."

"...it isn't that you suddenly dislike the people. But you feel, quite suddenly, that it isn't real enough - and you want something to be real"

 'I don't really know why I was carrying all this, except that it was all I had in the world.'

'It was being learned again that men needed more than courage, anger, slogans, convictions, or even a just cause when they went to war.'

'The villagers were infected with fatalism, a kind of subdued and deliberate apathy. Only sometimes in the eyes of the younger men did one see the violent hopes they lived for.'

'It was an extraordinary relief to be on my own again, and I made for the hills as fast as I could.'

'Ο γαλήνιος άνθρωπος δεν ταρασσεται ο ίδιος ούτε προξενεί ταραχή στους άλλους.'

'Τίποτε δεν είναι αρκετό γι'αυτόν που και το αρκετό του φαίνεται λίγο.'

'Είναι ανόητο να ζητά κανεις από τους θεούς όσα μπορεί να αποκτήσει από μόνος του.'

'Ας προσπαθήσουμε να κάνουμε το επόμενο διάστημα καλύτερο από το προηγούμενο, όσο βρισκόμαστε ακόμη στον δρόμο. Κι όταν φτάσουμε στο τέρμα, ας χαρούμε ισορροπημένα'

'Τις κακές συνήθειες ας τις διώξουμε ολότελα από κοντά μας, σαν πονηρούς ανθρώπους που για πολύ καιρό μας έκαναν μεγάλο κακό.'

'Είναι μικρός από κάθε άποψη ο άνθρωπος που έχει πολλούς και καλούς λόγους να εγκαταλείψει τη ζωή του'

125: 'Εκείνο που δεν φέρνει ταραχή όταν είναι παρόν, άδικα προξενεί πόνο όταν αναμενεται'

'For the first time I was learning how much easier it was to leave than to stay behind and love.'

'In this hazy ghetto of ideological struggle it was easy to lose our dimensions, and the immediate aims of the strike became so blurred that we felt ready to take on the world. It was then, for the first time, that I experienced hallucinations of communism, naive and innocent as water, a physical sensation rather than an intellectual one...'