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“Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est" ("They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier").”

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David Foster Wallace

American novelist known for his unique literary style and profound insights into modern life. His works include 'Infinite Jest' and 'The Broom of the System'. more

“There's lots of kinds of chains. You can't see most of them, the one's that bind folks together. But people build them, link by link. Sometimes the links are weak, snap like this one did. That's another funny thing, now that I think of it. Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all.”

People Thinking Kind Sometimes Together Weak Folks Chains Strongest Links Funny Things Snaps

Author:Bruce Coville

“So the Dark did a simple thing. They showed the maker of the sword his own uncertainty and fear. Fear of having done the wrong thing--fear that having done this one great thing, he would never again be able to accomplish anything of great worth--fear of age, of insufficiency, of unmet promise. All such great fears, that are the doom of people given the gift of making, and lie always somewhere in their minds.”

People Mind Done Age Able Lying Given Dark Simple Promise Accomplish Great Things Uncertainty Makers Doom Wrong Things Simple Things Insufficiency

Book:Silver on the Tree

Source: Silver on the Tree

“If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky.”

Ifs Way Black Watches Forever Sky Lessons Blue Breathe Tricks Better Now

Author:Alice Hoffman

“But what manner of use would it be ploughing through that darkness?' asked Drinian. Use?' replied Reepicheep. 'Use, Captain?' If you mean by filling our bellies or our purses, I confess it will be no use at all. So far as I know we did not set sail to look for things useful but to seek honour and adventures. And here is as great an adventure as I have ever heard of, and here, if we turn back, no little impeachment of all our honours.”

Ifs Knows Looks Mean Littles Use Turns Darkness Heard Adventure Honour Sail Captains Belly Filling Purses Impeachment Ploughing Reepicheep

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Just like in bodybuilding, failure is also a necessary experience for growth in our own lives, for if we're never tested to our limits, how will we know how strong we really are? How will we ever grow?”

Ifs Knows Strong Grows Growth Know How Limits Motivational Sports Tested Bodybuilding

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.”

Soul Poetry Is

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see, Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me; In exile thy bosom shall still be my home, And thine eyes make my climate wherever we roam.”

Art Stills Home Seems Eye Lasts Sorrow Climate Ireland Glimpse Exile Bosoms Erin

Book:The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore Including His Melodies, Ballads, Etc: Complete in One Volume

Source: The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore Including His Melodies, Ballads, Etc: Complete in One Volume

“It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.”

Ifs Knows Heart Long Enough Together Passion Silence Gone Couple Married Brutal Mockery Phantoms Pitfalls Married Couples Cholera Disillusion Cavalry Conjugal Beyond Love

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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