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- A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect…
- and for a moment he held out his hands as if to steady himself or as if to bless the ground there or perhaps as…
- For me the world has always been more of a puppet show. But when one looks behind the curtain and traces the strings upward he…
- He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and…
- They heard somewhere in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and they rode out on the round dais…
- 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…
- Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has…
- Yet it is the narrative that is the life of the dream while the events themselves are often interchangeable. The events of the waking world…
- He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort…
- The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the…
- He poured the tumbler full. Drink up, he said. The world goes on. We have dancing nightly and this night is no exception. The straight…
- The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in…
- Maybe. Anyway, some men get what they want. No man. Or perhaps only briefly so as to lose it. Or perhaps only to prove to…
- I didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said. I know you didn't. I just meant I'd seen some things I'd as soon not of.…
- If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and there were contained…
- Lying under such a myriad of stars. The sea’s black horizon. He rose and walked out and stood barefoot in the sand and watched the…
- And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another…
- The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain…
- Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. He looked about at the dark forest in which they…
- 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…
- Each the others world entire.
- He looked at a world of incredible loveliness. Old distaff Celt's blood in some back chamber of his brain moved him to discourse with the…
- Finally he said that if men drink the blood of God yet they do not understand the seriousness of what they do. He said that…
- He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
- The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of…
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach