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“It is war now, and armies need symbols.”

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Lauren Oliver, born in 1982, is an accomplished American author known for her profound emotional depth and imaginative storytelling. Her works have garnered widespread acclaim and have resonated with readers around the world. more

“The cool thing about being a writer is: you get to make stuff up. When I started wring about Vampires, I realized, I can take everything i did like about that mythology and anything I didn't like, I didn't have to; because until a real Vampire stands up and says, 'you've got it wrong,' it's anyone's game.”

I Can Real Games Stuff I Realized Mythology Vampire Cool Things

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.”

Reason Results Accepting Sea Exercise Crosses Infinite Mysticism Poetry Is Sane Strain Finite Floats Exhaustion

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realise it. - Miss Marple”

Missing Realising Miss Marple

Author:Agatha Christie

“To be a man, to have been born without knowing it or wanting it, to be thrown into the ocean of existence, to be obliged to swim, to exist; to have an identity; to resist the pressure and shocks from the outside and the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts - one's own and those of others - which so often exceed one's capacities? And what is more, to endure one's own thoughts about all this: in a word, to be human.”

Men Humans Has Beens Born Existence Knowing Identity Ocean Capacity Pressure Endure Shock Thrown Swim Obliged Be A Man Exceed Unforeseen

Author:Ivo Andric

“Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends”

Knows Littles Spirit Growth Results Tree Produce Willing Depends Bears Fruit Miraculous Gift From God Fruits Of The Spirit

Book:The Cost of Discipleship

Source: The Cost of Discipleship

“The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.”

Men Giving Should Law Enemy Expression Defeat Gods Will

Book:The Cost of Discipleship

Source: The Cost of Discipleship

“Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.”

Long Reason Language Devil Wit Sarcasm Sarcastic English Language

Book:Fraser's Magazine

Source: Fraser's Magazine

“Bless them that persecute you.' If our enemy cannot put up with us any longer and takes to cursing us, our immediate reaction must be to lift up our hands and bless him. Our enemies are the blessed of the Lord. Their curse can do us no harm. May their poverty be enriched with all the riches of God, with the blessing of Him whom they seek to oppose in vain. We are ready to endure their curses so long as they redound to their blessing.”

Ifs May Long Hands Can Do Lord Enemy Poverty Ready Blessing Blessed Endure Harm Riches Reactions Lifts Vain Curse Bless Cursing

Book:The Cost of Discipleship

Source: The Cost of Discipleship

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