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I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!
In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.
All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothers.
They say night's beauties fade at dawn, and the children of wine are oft disowned in the morning light.
Children are a battle of a different sort. ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce.
I always thought writer's block was something that prats used as an easy excuse for not doing any work.
An empty bus hurtles through the starry night Perhaps the driver is singing and happy because he sings.
You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.
..we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'.
Near or far, there are burdens and terrors in sisterhood, and perhaps the nearer, the more complicated.
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world.
In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.
Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind.
Truth is ever incoherent, and when the big hearts strike together, the concussion is a little stunning.
Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two?
The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.
Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.
There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.
You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.
Aha! So I’m not crazy.” “You are most definitely crazy,” Derek said. “But in a deranged, endearing way.
Are you implying that our relationship is like a Spanish soap opera?” “I’m not implying. I’m saying it.
There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.
Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.
A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.
The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
You're a prefect? Oh Ronnie! That's everyone in the family!" "What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?
Choose what to believe. He wanted the truth. Why was everybody so determined that he should not get it.
Gringotts was the safest place in the world for something you wanted to hide — except perhaps Hogwarts.
Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,' Dumbledore went on, smiling.
Harry: "And what if I wave my wand and nothing happens?” Ron: “Throw it away and punch him on the nose.
I could die in this bed with him right now, wrapped in his arms and I would never know that I had died.
And I'm full aware of how much you don't like me at this moment" Can't be a new thing for you" Jim said
She is more beautiful than I have words for. And last night, I was blessed beyond measure to serve her.
All right, big guy, down you go." Oh,yeah. Bed. Bed was good. "And look who's here. It's Nurse Vishous.
It's a vicious cycle. It's like a washing machine with the lid jammed down. -Christina Kratovac (pg 53)
Never judge anyone by another's opinions. We all have different sides that we show to different people.
I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance.
And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time, and furthermore, to win.
Because I was raised in a Christian culture I never considered myself to be a totally free human being.
I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women.
The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.
I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.
I would say that I am a jaded man beyond most expectations, but, like everyone else, I still have hope.
All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.
To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last.
I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.