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“There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.”

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Lydia Davis

Lydia Davis is an American writer born on July 15, 1947. Known for her concise and refined style, Davis is renowned for her short story writing. Her works have won numerous literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the MacArthur Genius Grant. more

“You know nothing... And suppose the vampire who made you knew nothing, and the vampire who made that vampire knew nothing, and the vampire before him knew nothing, and so it goes back and back, nothing proceeding from nothing, until there is nothing! And we must live with the knowledge that there is no knowledge.”

Knows Made Vampire Proceeding

Author:Anne Rice

“Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?”

Firsts Fall Evil Sin Depth

Book:The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle

Source: The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle

“I love you still, that's the torment of it. Lestat I never loved. But you! The measure of my hatred is that love. They are the same! Do you know now how much I hate you!”

Knows Stills Hate Love You Hatred I Hate Do You Know Torment Hate You I Hate You Still Love You Lestat I Still Love You

Book:The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned

Source: The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned

“I allowed myself to forget how totally I had fallen in love with Lestat's iridescent eyes, that I'd sold my soul for a many-colored and luminescent thing, thinking that a highly reflective surface conveyed the power to walk on water.”

Thinking Soul Eye Water Walks Forget Surface My Soul Fallen Lestat Iridescent

Book:The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned

Source: The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned

“That is the crowning evil, that we can even go so far as to love each other, you and I. And who else would show us a particle of love, a particle of compassion or mercy? Who else, knowing us as we know each other, could do anything but destroy us? Yet we can love each other.”

Knows Shows Evil Compassion Knowing Mercy Particles Love Each Other

Book:Interview with the Vampire

Source: Interview with the Vampire

“In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.”

Poverty Comfort Misfortunes Refuge True Friend Mischief True Life Misfortunes Of Others Noble Deeds Prime Of Life

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.”

Inspirational Friendship Sun Friends Shadow Shining Poor Richard Fake Friends Sun Shines False Friends

Book:Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack

“Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common prizefighter? Who would stoop to be fearless--like a tree? Fight the thing that you fear. You remember the old tale of the English clergyman who gave the last rites to the brigand of Sicily, and how on his death-bed the great robber said, 'I can give you no money, but I can give you advice for a lifetime: your thumb on the blade, and strike upwards.' So I say to you, strike upwards, if you strike at the stars.”

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

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