Ancient Quotes

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To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, â€œare not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. To glorify the… — Jorge Luis Borges
The kiss was innocent--innocent enough--but it was also full of something not unlike what Virginia wants from London, from life; it was full of a… — Michael Cunningham
My own feeling about JJ, without knowing anything about him, was that he might have been a gay person, because he had long hair and… — Nick Hornby
Stealing ideas from contemporaries is rude and tasteless. Stealing from the long dead is considered literary and admirable. The same is true of grave-robbing. Loot… — N.D. Wilson
What comes to your mind when you think of the word Transylvania, if you ponder it at all? What comes to my mind are mountains… — Elizabeth Kostova
O Son of Spirit! My first counsel is this: Possess a pure, kindly and radiant heart, that thine may be a sovereignty ancient, imperishable and… — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book. — Arthur Conan Doyle
The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the… — Carlos Fuentes
You must know the story of how the race of ancient days reached the stars, and how they bargained away all the wild half of… — Gene Wolfe
Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and… — Hermann Hesse
Memory is a tenuous thing. . . . flickering glimpses, blue and white, like ancient, decomposing 16mm film. Happiness escapes me there, where faces are… — Ellen Hopkins
Thatâ€™s how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It re-creates some forgotten terror. Something weâ€™d like to think weâ€™ve grown beyond. But… — Chuck Palahniuk
All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in their own right. The past, whether Renaissance… — J. G. Ballard
I used to think I preferred getting old to the alternative, but now I'm not sure. Sometimes the momotony of bingo and sing-alongs and ancient… — Sara Gruen
What they forget is that, from Ancient Greece on, the people who returned from battle were either dead on their shields or stronger, despite and… — Paulo Coelho
Isn't it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves from the loved one, and, unsteadily, survived:… — Rainer Maria Rilke
His own voice was older than he was. Ancient, unearthed from some mystical subterranean place...The voice seemed to make his whole body ache. Maybe it… — Francesca Lia Block
The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses. — Kay Redfield Jamison
Its tall chimneys throw up black smoke, impregnating everything with soot, and the miners' faces as they traveled the streets were also imbued with that… — Che Guevara
My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a… — Isabel Allende

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