"I have no other pictures of the world apart from those which express evanescence, and callousness, vanity and anger, emptiness, orhideous useless hate. Everything has merely confirmed what I had seen and understood in my childhood: futile and sordid fits of rage, cries suddenly blanketed by the silence, shadows swallowed up for ever by the night."

-- Eugene Ionesco

#Hate Quotes #Night Quotes #Silence Quotes

“On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in the checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.”
“I'll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I'm gonna tell you how to build a clock.”
“I dreamed in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth; Â I dreamed that was the new City of Friends; Â Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust loveâ€”it led the rest; Â It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city, Â And in all their looks and words.”
“He told us that most of us would die violently, and those who did not would be brought down to the level of beasts.”
“I have had the feeling that a properly constructed flying-machine should be capable of being flown as a kite; and conversely, that a properly constructed kite should be capable of use as a flying-machine when driven by its own propellers.”
“He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.”
“Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.”
“What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [Ã‰owyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.”

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