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“I was not I, I was nothing - and that seemed to me quite marvelous.”

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Paulo Coelho, born on August 24, 1947, is a renowned Brazilian author and lyricist. His works are characterized by profound philosophical thoughts and rich imagination, with his most famous novel being 'The Alchemist'. more

“However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”

Source: Maxims of George Washington: Political, Military, Social, Moral, and Religious

“Embrace fanaticism. Harness joie de vivre by pursuing insane interests, consuming passions, and constant sources of gratification that do not depend on the approval of others”

Passion Interest Source Depends Embrace Constant Insane Approval Gratification Consuming Fanaticism Harness Approval Of Others Joie De Vivre

Author:Elizabeth Wurtzel

“‎The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.”

Waiting Party Class Struggle Periods Workers Smell Graves Bourgeoisie Class Struggle Sharpening

Book:Germany, 1931-1932

Source: Germany, 1931-1932

“A kiss can be like the world turning over. It can be like the tide of a dragon's dream washing through the unseen world that is hidden to mortal eyes but that nevertheless permeates our being. It can be hot and cold together, as vast as the heavens and yet specific to the pressure of hands and the parting of lips. It raised more intense feelings than I had expected, like being engulfed in a storm of lightning.”

“Rage is the opposite of thought, whoever has put you in this frame of mind has more control over you right now, than you have over yourself. If he is your opponent and you will face him today, you will be defeated.”

Ifs Mind Today Faces Right Now Opposites Rage Opponents Over You Defeated Frame Of Mind

Book:The Sister Souljah Collection #1: The Coldest Winter Ever; Midnight, A Gangster Love Story; and Midnight and the Meaning of Love

Source: The Sister Souljah Collection #1: The Coldest Winter Ever; Midnight, A Gangster Love Story; and Midnight and the Meaning of Love

“She took off her dark glasses and squinted at me. It was as though her eyes were shattered prisms, the dots of blue and gray and green like broken bits of sparkle.”

Eye Bits Dark Broken Blue Green Glasses Gray Her Eyes Shattered Dots Sparkle Prisms Dark Glasses

Book:Breakfast at Tiffany's

Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's

“Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?”

Ifs Want Life Long Doe Seems Conditions Events Filled Long Life

Book:Catch-22: A Novel

Source: Catch-22: A Novel

“Let her tell stories and dance in the rain, somersault, tumble and run, her joys must be high as her sorrows are deep, let her grow like a weed in the sun.”

Stories Running Joy Grows Sun Sorrow Rain Weed Dance In The Rain

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Do not dwell on what once was, but rather look forward and ponder how you can make the future brighter”

Looks Brighter Pondering

Author:Christopher Paolini

“The Resurrection was the greatest ‘eucatastrophe’ possible in the greatest Fairy Story — and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces tears because it is qualitatively so like sorrow, because it comes from those places where Joy and Sorrow are at one, reconciled, as selfishness and altruism are lost in Love.”

Stories Christian Joy Lost Emotion Produce Tears Sorrow Essentials Selfishness Fairy Resurrection Lost Love Altruism Joys And Sorrows Fairy Stories

Book:The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

Source: The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

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