"Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?"
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"Fortunate indeed are those in which there is combined a little good and a little bad, a little knowledge of many things outside their own callings, a capacity for love and a capacity for hate, for such as these can look with tolerance upon all, unbiased by the egotism of him whose head is so heavy on one side that all his brains run to that point."
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"Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours."
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"In that little party there was not one who would desert another; yet we were of different countries, different colours, different races, different religions--and one of us was of a different world."
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"Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous."
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"I am Tarzan of the Apes. I want you. I am yours. You are mine. We live here together always in my house. I will bring you the best of fruits, the tenderest deer, the finest meats that roam the jungle. I will hunt for you. I am the greatest of the jungle fighters. I will fight for you. I am the mightiest of the jungle fighters. You are Jane Porter, I saw it in your letter. When you see this you will know that it is for you and that Tarzan of the Apes loves you."
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"I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone."
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"It must be that I am dreaming, and that I shall awaken in a moment to see that awful knife descending toward my heart- kiss me, dear, just once before I lose my dream forever." -Jane-"
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"Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known I would not have had it otherwise for all the riches of Barsoom. Such is love, and such are lovers wherever love is known."
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"Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?"
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"Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude."
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"For a time Jack was angry; but when he had been without the jacket for a short while he began to realize that being half-clothed is infinitely more uncomfortable than being entirely naked. Soon he did not miss his clothing in the least, and from that he came to revel in the freedom of his unhampered state."
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"I could write stories just as rotten."
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"I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary acts have placed me face to face with death, I cannot recall a single one where any alternative step to that I took occurred to me until many hours later."
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"For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard."
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"Subconscious minds are no less fallible than the objective mind."
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"Imagination is but another name for super intelligence."
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