"To the men exposed to his rule Lymond never appeared ill: he was never tired; he was never worried, or pained, or disappointed, or passionately angry. If he rested, he did so alone; if he slept, he took good care to sleep apart. â€œâ€”I sometimes doubt if heâ€™s human,â€ said Will, speaking his thought aloud. â€œItâ€™s probably all done with wheels."

-- Dorothy Dunnett

#Tired Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Men Quotes

“And do you agree with me, that the first condition of an artist should be to bear respect toward what is great, and to bow to it and acknowledge it and not attempt to extinguish great flames for the sake of making his own rushlight burn more brightly?”

Source : Letter to Wilhelm Taubert, August 27, 1831.
“No nice men are good at getting taxis.”
“Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.”
“Or for the gorgeously bare vampire to give her a sensual massage while feeding her peeled grapes.”
“And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man's brain is mocked by a body that still longs to stretch in the sun and form a beautiful shape in someone else's gaze, to lie under a blue sky and dream of helpless, selfless love, to behold itself, illuminated, in the golden light of another's eyes.”
“Goaltending beats top notch scoring anytime!”
“[On the legend that after being beheaded St. Denis walked six miles with his head in his hands:] It is only the first step that is difficult.”
“It is the Jew who lies when he swears allegiance to another faith; who becomes a danger to the world.”

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