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“I have hunger for your mouth, for your voice, for your hair”

Love Poetry Passion Hunger Passionate Love Poetry

Book:100 Love Sonnets

Source: 100 Love Sonnets

“You as a soul you are alive, you as an actor - dead, as a character - dead... That's life, like it or not, it's not my problem!”

Soul Character Alive Dead Actor As

Author:Deyth Banger

“If mind is seen not as a threat but as a guide to emotion, if intellect is seen neither as a guarantee of character nor as an inevitable danger to it, if theory is conceived as something serviceable but not necessarily subordinate or inferior to practice, and if our democratic aspirations are defined in such realistic and defensible terms as to admit of excellence, all these supposed antagonisms lose their force.”

Character Democracy Intellectual Sentimentality Intellectualism Intellectuals Anti Intellectualism

Book:Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Source: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

“The Master is cordial yet stern, awe-inspiring yet not fierce and respectful yet at ease.”

Book:The Analects of Confucius: Bilingual Edition, English and Chinese: 論語

Source: The Analects of Confucius: Bilingual Edition, English and Chinese: 論語

“Character is a question of time. It lasts for a certain length of time, just like a glove. There are good ones that last a long time. But they don't last forever.”

Character Time Personality Integrity

Book:Fear and Misery of the Third Reich

Source: Fear and Misery of the Third Reich

“Levade had told her one day that there was no such thing as a coherent personality. When you are forty you have no cell in your body that you had at eighteen. It was the same, he said, with your character. Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves; for the rest, you become an entirely different being every decade or so, sloughing off the old persona, renewing and moving on. You are not who you were, he told her, nor who you will be.”

Character Personality Memory Being Persona Changing

Author:Sebastian Faulks

“Видишь ли, Гарри, так вышло, что в тебе много качеств, которые столь высоко ценил Салазар Слизерин у своих любимых учеников, — находчивость, решительность, чего греха таить, пренебрежение к школьным правилам. — Тут усы директора вновь задрожали. — И, наконец, редчайший дар — змеиный язык Однако же Волшебная шляпа направила тебя в Гриффиндор. Знаешь почему? Подумай! — Только потому, что я просил не посылать меня в Слизерин… — сокрушенно произнес Гарри. — Верно. — Дамблдор опять улыбнулся. — Именно в этом твоё отличие от Тома Реддла. Ведь человек — это не свойство характера, а сделанный им выбор.”

Life Character Humanity Harry Potter Hogwarts Albus Dumbledore Gryffindor Slytherin

Book:Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Source: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“In a science fiction novel, the world is a character, and often the most important character. In a mainstream novel, the world is implicitly our world, and the characters are the world.”

Character Place

Book:What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction & Fantasy

Source: What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction & Fantasy

“Your words may be heard but your attitude will be felt. Your attitude reveals your character so never try to deceive anyone with mere words. Word/Talk is cheap but character is key. It costs nothing to be authentic. Learn to be a man or woman of substance!”

Inspirational Character Truth Life Lessons Relationships Attitude Substance Real Talk Words Of Revelation Behaviours

Author:Kemi Sogunle

“The public personality of a leader is not what really matters. What he does out of the open stage really tells more about him than anything else.”

Source: Leaders' Ladder