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What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been. His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again… — Cormac McCarthy
Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live. It… — Kay Redfield Jamison
His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need… — J M Coetzee
Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been. — Edgar Allan Poe
Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins. — Jodi Picoult
They rode like men invested with a purpose whose origins were antecedent to them, like blood legatees of an order both imperative and remote. For… — Cormac McCarthy
Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example. They clearly must… — Terry Pratchett
One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the… — Wallace Stegner
This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal… — Victor Hugo
The flames sawed in the wind and the embers paled and deepened and paled and deepened like the bloodbeat of some living thing eviscerate upon… — Cormac McCarthy
Samhain had its origins, like many modern holidays or celebrations, in pagan times. As the sidhe-seers had been inclined to erect churches and abbeys on… — Karen Marie Moning
We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing… — Carl Sagan
Read day and night, devour books—these sleeping pills—not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of… — Emile M. Cioran
What makes a man a man? A friend of mine once wondered. Is it his origins? The way he comes to life? I don't think… — Guillermo del Toro
However wretched her origins, she chose freely to continue her crimes against us from the moment she woke to this life. It is easy to… — Catherynne M. Valente
If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter… — Bruce Sterling
All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never errs; it is… — Leonardo da Vinci
Yet as human beings we have to accept-with humility-that the question of ultimate origins will always remain with us, no matter how deeply we understand… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Perhaps because the origins of a certain kind of love lie in an impulse to escape ourselves and out weaknesses by an alliance with the… — Alain de Botton
You must take care to light the matches one at a time. If a powerful emotion should ignite them all at once, they would produce… — Laura Esquivel
There's no "should" or "should not" when it comes to having feelings. They're part of who we are and their origins are beyond our control.… — Fred Rogers
Right," I scoffed, "Alpha Yam Ergo." Adrian nodded solemnly. "A very old and prestigious society." "I've never heard of them," said the girl who'd claimed… — Richelle Mead
Everything that originates from God will endure the test of time. Therefore, it is good to check out the origins of everything to make sure… — Eric Ludy
Here and gone. That’s what it is to be human, I think—to be both someone and no one at once, to hold a particular identity… — Mark Doty

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