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World adorned with dreams and yearning,
Rain down on our deserts,
Rain down, but shake us, palms of the wound,
And break two branches off for us
From the trees that love the silence of the wound,
From the trees with arched lashes and hands
That keep vigil over the wound.

World adorned with dreams and yearning,
World falling in my brow,
Drawn like the wound,
Come no closer—the wound is closer than you.
Don’t tempt me—the wound is more beautiful,
And the wound has passed by that enchantment
Cast by your eyes
In the last kingdoms,
Passed without leaving a sail to tempt it astray,
Without leaving it an island.
Adonis
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"Time spent with cats is never wasted."
Sigmund Freud
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me
with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
James Baldwin
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It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer.
― Arthur Schopenhauer


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Saruman believes it is great power that can hold evil in check. But, that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love. Why Bilbo Baggins? Perhaps because I am afraid, and he gives me courage.
Gandalf, Lord of the Rings
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There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.

~ J. R. R. Tolkien
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I do so dearly believe that no half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Vaba Do'Shurh'do- It is good to be brave

~ Khajiit Saying
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“All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET— Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY.”

-Hogfather
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There is no greater power than the one others do not believe you possess.

<Snipped quote by Saint Kassiani>


It was a reply to Ὡς ἂρα διά γυναικός ἐῤῥρύη τὰ φαῦλα (Evil came from women), to which she replied Ἀλλά καὶ διά γυναικός πηγάζει τά κρείττω (But also good), referring to the original sin and Jesus respectively.

You can include a modern Greek translation when you use this quote (Απο την γυναίκα πηγάζουν και τα καλά), so it can be easier to understand and translate.
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"Strike! But listen!"
Themistocles, The Battle of Salamis

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"A cat is only technically an animal, being divine."
Robert Lynd
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Hidden 5 yrs ago 5 yrs ago Post by Briza
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...Then I placed
my mask on a stone, and walked as the sleepless
walk, led by my dream. And from one moon
to another I leapt...
In Her Absence I Created Her Image, Mahmoud Darwish


I said: You killed me ... and I forgot, like you, to die.
In Jerusalem, Mahmoud Darwish
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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

-Douglas Adams
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One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
Stephen King
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"I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions."

-lord Byron.
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Here's a 'mildly amusing' one:

“Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.”
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"A cat is a cat, always."
Mauricio Antón
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A cat is a prick, always.

-Me
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