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“Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.”
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes • Arthur Conan Doyle““Why, Milena, do you write about our common future which will never be, or is it that why you write about it? (…) Few things are certain, but one is that we’ll never live together, share an apartment, body to body, at a common table, never, not even in the same city. (…) Incidentally, Milena, you must agree when you examine yourself and me and take soundings of the “sea” between “Vienna” and “Prague” with its insurmountably high waves.” (Prague, September 1920)”
Letters To Milena • Franz Kafka“Time does not tarry ever ... but change and growth is not in all things and places alike.”
The Fellowship of the Ring • J.R.R Tolkien“Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.”
Man and Crisis • Jose Ortega y Gasset“In no social institution is the codified ritual of behavior more rigid than in funerals. Imagine the indignation if the minister altered his sermon or experimented with facial expression. Consider the shock if, at the funeral parlors, any chairs were used but those little folding yellow torture chairs with the hard seats. No, dying, a man may be loved, hated, mourned, missed; but once dead he becomes the chief ornament of a complicated and formal social celebration.”
Tortilla Flat • John Steinbeck