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History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality.… — Victor Hugo
A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones. — George Eliot
If there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a… — William Shakespeare
Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present… — Victor Hugo
There are people whose eyes you must avoid, whose attention you must not draw to yourself. They are strange, parasitic creatures, lost souls seeking to… — John Connolly
To wait. In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions all together occupy a bare one percent… — Osamu Dazai
Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality. — John Gardner
It's funny, but thinking back on it now, I realize that this particular point in time, as I stood there blinking in the deserted hall,… — Donna Tartt
.. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the… — Carl Sagan
No story has a beginning, and no story has an end. Beginnings and endings may be conceived to serve a purpose, to serve a momentary… — CaitlÃn R. Kiernan
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it… — Milton Friedman
It is something great and greatening to cherish an ideal; to act in the light of truth that is far-away and far above; to set… — Joshua Chamberlain
[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the story is about… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Its not just a smile of momentary happiness. When it disappears from my face, it will stay with me. — James Frey
Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl. But you can't tell a book by it's cover.' To which she added a momentary smile. — Haruki Murakami
Ask him why there are hypocrites in the world.' 'Because it is hard to bear the happiness of others.' 'When are we happy?' 'When we… — Vikram Chandra
Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was -… — William Faulkner
Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity. — Gustav Holst
What you select from, in order to tell your story, is nothing less than everything. What you build up your world from, your local, intelligible… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors… — Carl Sagan
The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense. — Caity Lotz
He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace. — Eugene Field
O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire? — Ada Cambridge
The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men. — Jacob Bronowski
Perhaps that is what love is: the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power — Phyllis Rose

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