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“Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill.”

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Brian Jacques was a British writer known for his children's literature. His works feature animal protagonists and blend adventure, fantasy, and humor, enjoying great popularity among readers of all ages. more

“Despite all my public misconduct, in the past year, I had learned the Elemental spells, the Doppelschläferin, and the preparation and flying of a magic broom; I had survived two months as prisoner of war, saving the life of captain Johanne in the process; I had escaped the dungeons of Fortress Drachensbett, and after an arduous journey successfully reunited with my double, so preserving her, and all Montagne, from Prince Flonian's rapacity, I would somehow master the despicable art of being a princess.”

“For, the sense of being which in calm hours rises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them, and proceeds obviously from the same source whence their life and being also proceed. We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause. Here is the fountain of action and of thought.”

Knows Men Soul Light Action Lying Hours Space Source Calm Arise Diverse Immense Fountain Lap

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.”

Consciousness Conscious Nothingness

Book:The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism

Source: The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism

“Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know. --After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned”

Thinking Knows Wanted Rivers Thrown Cranky

Author:Dave Eggers

“Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices.”

Source: Mad at Miles: a blackwoman's guide to truth

“Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.”

Real Stories Wanted Earth Pain Lost Bits Sun Flower Horror My Family Smallest Lovely Bones

Book:The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

“How many people didn't get a part who would have been better than the person who got the part? Thousands.”

People Persons Has Beens

Author:Albert Brooks

“Here on the pulse of this new day You may have the grace to look up and out And into your sister's eyes, Into your brother's face, your country And say simply Very simply With hope Good morning.”

Looks May Country Eye Faces Morning Grace Brother Look Up Pulse New Day Your Brother

Author:Maya Angelou

“Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?”

Mean Doe Doors Knocking Kicking Maniacs Grief Observed

Author:C. S. Lewis

“A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.”

Cheating

Author:W. C. Fields

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