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"God speed to your youthful valor, boy! So shall you scale the stars!" - Virgil, also Vergil, fully Publius Vergilius Maro NULL
"There is atonement, laid down by men of character, for one who kills a cow, consumes intoxicating drinks, steals or breaks one’s promise but there is no atonement for one who is ungrateful." - Valmiki NULL
"But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry in what I further shall intend to do, by heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint and strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs: the time and my intents are savage-wild, more fierce and more inexorable far than empty tigers or the roaring sea. Romeo and Juliet, Act v, Scene 3" - William Shakespeare
"Do not plunge thyself too far in anger. The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act v, Scene 4" - William Shakespeare
"Whatever is beyond this narrow rational consciousness we mistake for our only consciousness." - William James
"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name." - François de La Rochefoucauld, François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, Francois A. F. Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
"O that I were a mockery king of snow, Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke To melt myself away in water drops! The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (King Richard at IV, i)" - William Shakespeare
"The great boon of repression is that it makes it possible to live decisively in an overwhelmingly miraculous and incomprehensible world, a world so full of beauty, majesty, and terror that if animals perceived it all they would be paralyzed to act. ... What would the average man (sic) do with a full consciousness of absurdity? He has fashioned his character for the precise purpose of putting it between himself and the facts of life; it is his special tour-de-force that allows him to ignore incongruities, to nourish himself on impossibilities, to thrive on blindness. He accomplishes thereby a peculiarly human victory: the ability to be smug about terror." - Ernest Becker
"Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"God speed to your youthful valor, boy! So shall you scale the stars!" - Virgil, also Vergil, fully Publius Vergilius Maro NULL
"There is atonement, laid down by men of character, for one who kills a cow, consumes intoxicating drinks, steals or breaks one’s promise but there is no atonement for one who is ungrateful." - Valmiki NULL
"But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry in what I further shall intend to do, by heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint and strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs: the time and my intents are savage-wild, more fierce and more inexorable far than empty tigers or the roaring sea. Romeo and Juliet, Act v, Scene 3" - William Shakespeare
"Do not plunge thyself too far in anger. The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act v, Scene 4" - William Shakespeare
"Whatever is beyond this narrow rational consciousness we mistake for our only consciousness." - William James
"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name." - François de La Rochefoucauld, François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, Francois A. F. Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
"O that I were a mockery king of snow, Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke To melt myself away in water drops! The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (King Richard at IV, i)" - William Shakespeare
"The great boon of repression is that it makes it possible to live decisively in an overwhelmingly miraculous and incomprehensible world, a world so full of beauty, majesty, and terror that if animals perceived it all they would be paralyzed to act. ... What would the average man (sic) do with a full consciousness of absurdity? He has fashioned his character for the precise purpose of putting it between himself and the facts of life; it is his special tour-de-force that allows him to ignore incongruities, to nourish himself on impossibilities, to thrive on blindness. He accomplishes thereby a peculiarly human victory: the ability to be smug about terror." - Ernest Becker
"Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway