"All men are warriors. And life for everything in our universe is nothing but war."

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“Oh, where does the light go when the light goes out?”

“Truth, like a woman, must be wooed and won - and this only through the purity of mind and the heart’s deep love.”

“Eternity and pain, pain and eternity — they are the only two things of which the universe is made.”

“Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.”

“But it is the nature of life that no emotion is meant to last forever...”

“A man lusts to become a god ... and there is murder. Murder upon murder upon murder. Why is the world of men nothing but murder?”

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"Is not the training of an artist a training in the due relation of one thing with another, and in the faculty of expressing that relation clearly; and, even more, a training in the faculty of disengag…"

— John Galsworthy

Literature1867–1933

#life

"A stupid man is more prone to cabin fever just as he's more prone to shoot someone over a card game or commit a spur-of-the-moment robbery. He gets bored. When the snow comes and there's nothing to do…"

— Stephen King

Literature1986

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"An ox is of a very different nature from a fox, and men are very unlike serpents, because the classes of impulses in the consciousnesses of these animals are for the most part very different in one an…"

— J. Howard Moore

Philosophy1862–1916

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"It’s always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility. You can try to stop time, but it’s a complete w…"

— Paulo Coelho

Science1947–1985

#life