"I once read about a guy who lost his arms in a fire. The nurse took pity on him and gave him a hand job. I don't even get that."
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"Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back."
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"Not facing a fire doesn't put it out."
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"Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire."
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"Fire destroys that which feeds it."
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"Paradise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are surrounded by what we desire."
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"Discipline is no longer literal obedience but intelligent obedience, for discipline aims at obedience coupled with activity of will. Once discipline weakens and vanishes, as it does towards the latter stages of the fire fight, and the crowd instinct possesses the soldier, then will he, if training has formed those necessary mental reflexes, surrender himself to the will of his leader; this is where leadership supplants discipline without destroying it."
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"When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes."
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"This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again."
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"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."
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"Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed."
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"The wildlings seemed to think Ygritte a great beauty because of her hair; red hair was rare among the free folk, and those who had it were said to be kissed by fire, which was supposed to be lucky."
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"The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further."
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"Imagine some foul and putrid corpse that has lain rotting and decomposing in the grave, a jelly-like mass of liquid corruption. Imagine such a corpse a prey to flames, devoured by the fire of burning brimstone and giving off dense choking fumes of nauseous loathsome decomposition. And then imagine this sickening stench, multiplied a millionfold and a millionfold again from the millions upon millions of fetid carcasses massed together in the reeking darkness, a huge and rotting human fungus. Imagine all this, and you will have some idea of the horror of the stench of hell."
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"I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute."
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"Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it."
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"She was up and down—from fire and brimstone to smoke and ashes."
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"The tradition of the camp fire faces that of the pyramid."
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"I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars."
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"Anger is like fire. It burns all clean."
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