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Quote by William Shakespeare

“Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed King.”

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William Shakespeare (1564 - April 23, 1616) was one of the greatest poets of the English Renaissance, renowned for his dramatic works. His plays spanned a variety of genres, including tragedy, comedy, and history, and have had a profound impact on literature worldwide. more

“I think the world has mostly ended because the cities we wander through are as rotten as we are. Buildings have collapsed. Rusted cars clog the streets. Most glass is shattered and the wind drifting through the hollow high-rises moans like an animal left to die. I don't know what happened. Disease? War? Social collapse? Or was it just us? The Dead replacing the Living? I guess it's not so important. Once you're arrived at the end of the world, it hardly matters which road you took.”

Source: Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition

“Sometimes if you want something badly enough, you can make it happen. If you miss someone so desperately that it wrecks your insides, you say their name over and over until you conjure then. It's called sympathetic magic and you just have to believe in it to make it work.”

Ifs Want Life Believe Sometimes Enough Happens Names Magic Missing Want Something Sympathetic Missing Someone Wrecks Make It Happen

Author:Jenny Downham

“As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.”

Men May Doe Matter States Lost Given Dignity Affair Given Up Does It Matter Social Contract

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath, betwixt, between.”

Mind Dream Moving Night Wish Dark Wind Ghost Holes Dust Slips Unseen Slides

Book:The Graveyard Book

Source: The Graveyard Book

Quote by William Shakespeare

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