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Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows...

Change is necessary and, deny it as we may, in the end change is always inevitable.

I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.

But it seems alone, completely alone in the universe, a piece of a shipwreck in the Atlantic width

It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.

This amazing force in the sins of the whale never tends to obstruct the graceful furniture in its movements, where the graceful ease is woven through the tyranny of power. Rather, the opposite is...

Ahab and aguish lay stretched together in one hammock.

No, I say. You knew me. You knew that person, but you don't know the person that I'm trying to become.

He knew you could never teach an animal anything if you struck it, or even shouted at it angrily. He must always be gentle, and quiet, and patient, even when they made mistakes. Star

Imagine my surprise, nay, my consternation, when without moving from his privacy, Bartleby, in a singular mild, firm voice, replied, "I would prefer not to."

Of such a letter, Death himself might well have been the post-boy.

And you may comfort yourself with the thought that you have been the caltrop under her satin shoe every step of the way. You misdirected the Romantic Facilitator she had hired, you turned up in her...

..for we all are dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending..

In this world, headwinds are far more prevalent than winds from astern {that is, if you never violate the Pythagorean maxim}.

So true it is, and so terrible, too, that up to a certain point the thought or sight of misery enlists our best affections; but, in certain special cases, beyond that point it does not. they err who...

but then where would one end if one started to compose a list of the wrongs that this world had seen? Better perhaps, thought Mma Ramotswe, to make a list of those things that were right with the...

He held to it in the way of a man who holds the string of a kite that is so high he can't see it anymore, knowing that any moment it may break and the only way he will know it has broken will be by...

Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters.

This slavery breeds ugly passions in man.

If the last to know he's an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected.

But if you do not forgive, and you think all the time about getting even, or punishing somebody who has done you a wrong, what are you achieving?

Dying is not in synonymous with Useless

What is it?A prayer.For a child?She nodded.For me?Another nod.On a tree?Trees spend all day looking up at God.

Everyone should have a hippie painter anarchist in their lives. It's the guys in silvered aviators with guns that you've got to be wary of.

You assume that it has to be a male god who finds a human female attractive? How sexist is that?

It is with imaginary writers that I learn what I want to do. For example, Stephen Dedalus or Nick Adams. I read their lives as a way to understand what it is about. I have no interest in inspiring...

That we need to pretend sometimes what anger has, but anger even must never tolerate to have. Because, when one likes to be angry at someone, it is the same as authorizing that this person himself...

Atreus: Who would reject the flood of fortune's gifts? Thyestes: Anyone who has experienced how easily they flow back. -SENECA, THYESTES, 536

A sleeping man would miss the best of the evening, and the moonrise as well.

It's the way he had a cup of tea waiting for me when I woke up. It's the way he turned on his laptop especially for me to look up all my Internet horoscopes and helped me choose the best one. He knows...

My heart cracked. Daemon never begged.

there was no such thing as past or future. There was no time that could be lost or won. The only thing that counted was action.

You know a person cannot live at a high pitch of emotion, the feelings become dulled by a natural, unconscious effort at self-preservation. You