"The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin."
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"I don't hate it. It does no good to hate something you can't change."
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"Some day soon, reaper, your mouth is going to be the source of your own destruction." "That does seem likely, doesn’t it?" Tod glanced at me and shrugged. "Until then, it remains a source of my own amusement."
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"Just as I have insisted on his worth, he has always insisted on my strength, insisted that my capacity is greater than I believe. And I know, without being told, that's what love does, when it's right-it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be. This is right."
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"though he does not touch me, he steadies me."
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"We share a common enemy, but does that make us friends?"
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"Can I ask why you’re throwing knives at cheese?’ ‘Caleb came by to discuss something,’ Tobias says, leaning his head against the wall as he looks at me. ‘And knife-throwing just came up somehow.’ ‘As it so often does,’ I say, a small smile inching across my face."
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"I feel like someone is pressing me into a mold that does not fit my body, forcing me intothe wrong shape."
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"You need to be passionate about the creative work that you're doing, but you need to be kind of emotionally separated from how people react to it or how it does. Those things should be secondary, and primary should be your love of the creative act."
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"things in this world are very roughly averaged; and although averaging is a useful, rapid way of dispatching business, it does undoubtedly waste a great deal which is too good for wasting."
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"He who does not move with the times is a dead man"
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"It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it is shyness before any sort of new, unforeseeable experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope. But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatical will live the relation to another as something alive."
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"It is good to say it aloud: 'Nothing has happened.' Once again: 'Nothing has happened.' Does that help?""
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"It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him."
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"If I have not been exposed and am not in any danger of pursuit. But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuer that does not readily let go."
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"Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder."
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"My greatness does not extend to this shelf."
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"...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread."
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"Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use."
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"I've come to a wonderful realization that is fascinating: I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to love. No one does!"
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