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If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly in a large… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
And if I should leave you, for any reason," he added, tightening his grip as she struggled to free her hand, "I will return to… — Sharon Shinn
One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from boredom. They allow… — Vincent Price
It's not like most people read anymore. Well, not unless the book has a wizard school or a hot vampire. And, as a Kari Kngsley… — Janette Rallison
A certain person wondered why a big strong girl like me wouldn't keep a job which paid a normal salary. I took my time to… — Maya Angelou
To enter into the realm of contemplation, one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance into a higher… — Thomas Merton
A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong. — Michael Faraday
Summer came. For the book thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews. When their bodies had finished scouring… — Markus Zusak
Almost Kien was tempted to believe in happiness, that contemptible life-goal of illiterates. If it came of itself, without being hunted for, if you did… — Elias Canetti
I have sometimes dreamt ... that when the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards… — Virginia Woolf
Certain of misfire, my heart threatens to stop. — Ellen Hopkins
The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain levelï»¿ of alienation — Terence McKenna
We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible... So we will do them anyway. — William Wilberforce
True courage, in the face of almost certain death, is the rarest quality on earth. — Christopher Pike
Gerald Westerby, he told himself. You were present at your birth. You were present at your several marriages and at some of your divorces, and… — John le Carre
O the joy of my spirit--it is uncaged--it darts like lightning! It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time, I will… — Walt Whitman
I'm fairly certain. I could be some ghastly hallucination, a figment of my own imagination — Derek Landy
The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within… — Aberjhani
There is in certain living souls a quality of loneliness unspeakable, so great it must be shared as company is shared by lesser beings. Such… — Theodore Sturgeon
He didnâ€™t know where the thought had come from, or what strange corner of his brain had come to that conclusion, because he was quite… — Julia Quinn

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