T.H. White Quotes

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• Aviators live by hours, not by days.
• I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one enjoys being alive or not.
• You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss…
• The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails.
• Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured…
• Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no…
• Is there anything more terrible than perpetual motion, than doing and doing and doing, without a reason, without a consciousness, without a change, without an…
• Yes, that is the equality of man. Slaughter anybody who is better than you are, and then we shall be equal soon enough. All equally…
• The unicorn was white, with hoofs of silver and graceful horn of pearl... The glorious thing about him was his eye. There was a faint…
• Why can't you harness Might so that it works for Right? I know it sounds nonsense, but, I mean, you can't just say there is…
• The fisherman fishes as the urchin eats cream buns, from lust.
• Dogs, like very small children, are quite mad.
• Believe me, the so-called primitive races who worshipped animals as gods were not so daft as people choose to pretend. At least they were humble.…
• We find that at present the human race is divided politically into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of every hundred. That…
• The destiny of man is to unite, not to divide.
• The weather behaved itself. In the spring, the little flowers came out obediently in the meads, and the dew sparkled, and the birds sang. In…
• Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.
• Kay was older and bigger than the Wart, so that he was bound to win in the end, but he was more nervous and imaginative.…
• Now, in their love, which was stronger, there were the seeds of hatred and fear and confusion growing at the same time: for love can…
• Jenny, all my life I have wanted to do miracles. I have wanted to be holy. I suppose it was ambition or pride or some…

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