"He saw in happiness the seeds of independence,……" — Mervyn Peake
"He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt."
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39 Quotes by Mervyn Peake
Mervyn Peake has 39 quotes on this site.
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There is a brotherhood among the kindly- Closer and defter and more integral- Than any of aisle or coven- For…
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Noon, ripe as thunder and silent as thought, had fled unfingered.
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There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams…
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Through her, in microcosm, the wide earth sobbed. The starglobe sank in her; the colours faded. The death-dew rose and…
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The crumbling castle, looming among the mists, exhaled the season, and every cold stone breathed it out. The tortured trees…
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I want a lot to eat, I'm going to think today.
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The Earth swirls down through the ominous moons of preconsidered generations.
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I am too rich already, for my eyes mint gold. - Coloured Money
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Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural…
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What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that…
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He had no longer any need for home, for he carried his Gormenghast within him. All that he sought was…
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This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and…
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More Happiness Quotes
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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be…
— Hannah Arendt
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
— Aristotle
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He who hath many friends hath none.
— Aristotle
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
— Aristotle
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or…
— Aristotle
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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
— Aristotle
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Friendship is essentially a partnership.
— Aristotle
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
— Aristotle
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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of…
— Aristotle
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It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until…
— Richard Bach
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In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
— Richard Bach
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