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- All I wanted to do was lie in the dry grass with my feet in a ditch forever. I could be a convenient sort of…
- I woke with a terrible headache and wobbled around 'till I fell out the window." "You what?" "Fell out the window. That one over there."…
- All of my own impulses to balance and move seemed to conflict with those of the guards, and I was jerked and jostled down the…
- And the Earth had no name. The gods know themselves and have no need of names. It is man who names all things, even gods.
- Are you badly hurt?" "Hideously," said the king, without sounding injured at all. "I am disemboweled. My insides may in an instant become my outsides…
- He waved at his attendants. "I dragged them like a ball and chain all the way across the palace and back." "If sterner measures are…
- All my life they had made choices for me, and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine, and once it was made, I…
- Thanks to His Majesty," the magus said, and my father seemed startled at the correction but not displeased. He looked thoroughly satisfied and very much…
- You didn't know I could do that, did you?" he asked, conversationally. "I did not, Your Majesty," Teleus gasped. "My grandfather killed a man that…
- ...I asked Ochto what in the name of all that was sacred he thought he was doing. "Helping you," said Dirnes. "Why?" They put the…
- I grieved, but a part of me felt a lightening of a burden that I had carried all my life: that I could never be…
- I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say 'We eat the chicken now!' but the magus had seen that I…
- I can't leave her there all alone, surrounded by stone walls... She's too precious to give up.
- Who was the Thief that she would love him? A youth, just a boy with hardly a beard and no sense at all... A liar,…
- He should have said something, why hadn't he? Costis wondered. In fact, the king had. He had complained at every step all the way across…
- We are taught to treat a practice sword with all the respect of a real weapon, so no thoughtless mistakes are made" "Oh... In Eddis,…
- I cut off your hand. I have been living with your grief and your rage and your pain ever since. I don't think-I don't think…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle