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    “Manfred, Prince of Otranto, had one son and one daughter: the latter, a most beautiful virgin, aged eighteen, was called Matilda. Conrad, the son, was three years younger, a homely youth, sickly, and of no promising disposition; yet he was the darling of his father, who never showed any symptoms of affection to Matilda. Manfred had contracted a marriage for his son with the Marquis of Vicenza’s daughter, Isabella; and she had already been delivered by her guardians into the hands of Manfred, that he might celebrate the wedding as soon as Conrad’s infirm state of health would permit.”

    ― Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

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    “I desired you once before,” said Manfred angrily, “not to name that woman: from this hour she must be a stranger to you, as she must be to me. In short, Isabella, since I cannot give you my son, I offer you myself.”

    ― Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

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    “I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel – a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.”

    ― Horace Walpole

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    “Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.”

    ― Democritus

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    “The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way.”

    ― Heraclitus

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    “ I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!

    Charles M. Schulz , The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 5: 1959-1960

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    “ People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed."

    Rick Riordan , The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)

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    “We just philosophize, complain of boredom, or drink vodka. It's so clear, you see, that if we're to begin living in the present, we must first of all redeem our past and then be done with it forever. And the only way we can redeem our past is by suffering and by giving ourselves over to exceptional labor, to steadfast and endless labor.”

    ― Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard

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    Quote Originally Posted by GracelessFawn
    Take off your beer googles Bill.
    yes your GracelessFawn got that wrong but i goggled the above and all i got was

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    Well, I'm not the kind to live in the past
    the years run too short, and the days too fast
    The things you lean on are the things that don't last

    - Time Passages, by Al Stewart

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    “Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.”

    ― Albert Camus, The Fall

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    "Now like an insane man, you seek water in the middle of a stream.''


    - Propertius Sextus (c. 50-16 B.C.)

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    “But in the Gulf you got time. And I'm figuring all the time. I've got to think right all the time. I can't make a mistake. Not a mistake. Not once. Well, I got something to think about now all right. Something to do and something to think about besides wondering what the hell's going to happen. Besides wondering what's going to happen to the whole damn thing.”

    ― Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not

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    Mama


    here I am
    in the ground
    my mouth
    open
    and
    I can't even say
    mama,
    and
    the dogs run by and stop and piss
    on my stone; I get it all
    except the sun
    and my suit is looking
    bad
    and yesterday
    the last of my left
    arm gone
    very little left, all harp-like
    without music.
    at least a drunk
    in bed with a cigarette
    might cause 5 fire
    engines and
    33 men.
    I can't
    do
    any
    thing.
    but p.s. -- Hector Richmond in the next
    tomb thinks only of Mozart and candy
    caterpillars.
    he is
    very bad
    company.

    - Bukowski

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    These Things


    these things that we support most well
    have nothing to do with up,
    and we do with them
    out of boredom or fear or money
    or cracked intelligence;
    our circle and our candle of light
    being small,
    so small we cannot bear it,
    we heave out with Idea
    and lose the Center:
    all wax without the wick,
    and we see names that once meant
    wisdom,
    like signs into ghost towns,
    and only the graves are real.

    - Bukowski

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    For last year's words belong to last year's language
    And next year's words await another voice.

    ― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

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    "To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”

    ― T.S. Eliot

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    The Snow Man

    One must have a mind of winter
    To regard the frost and the boughs
    Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;

    And have been cold a long time
    To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
    The spruces rough in the distant glitter

    Of the January sun; and not to think
    Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
    In the sound of a few leaves,

    Which is the sound of the land
    Full of the same wind
    That is blowing in the same bare place
    For the listener, who listens in the snow,
    And, nothing himself, beholds
    Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.


    - Wallace Stevens

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    Continual Conversation With A Silent Man

    The old brown hen and the old blue sky,
    Between the two we live and die--
    The broken cartwheel on the hill.

    As if, in the presence of the sea,
    We dried our nets and mended sail
    And talked of never-ending things,

    Of the never-ending storm of will,
    One will and many wills, and the wind,
    Of many meanings in the leaves,

    Brought down to one below the eaves,
    Link, of that tempest, to the farm,
    The chain of the turquoise hen and sky

    And the wheel that broke as the cart went by.
    It is not a voice that is under the eaves.
    It is not speech, the sound we hear

    In this conversation, but the sound
    Of things and their motion: the other man,
    A turquoise monster moving round.


    - Wallace Stevens

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    “I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”

    ― T.S. Eliot

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    “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”

    ― Plato

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    “What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.”

    ― Douglas Adams, The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts

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    “I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any man who claims he's not into strong women is fooling himself mindless; he's into strong women who know how to pout prettily and put on baby voices, and who will end up keeping his balls in her makeup bags.”

    ― Tana French, Faithful Place

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    “You had to make your choice between survival and efficiency, though in the long run survival was optimum efficiency, no matter how much time and effort it took.”

    ― Philip José Farmer, The Dark Design

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    “Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”

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