"There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,â€ Chiron said. â€œAnd perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?"

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Source : Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.79, Bloomsbury Publishing

Madeline Miller

#Grief Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Law Quotes

“When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It's a beautiful pointer. It never fails.”
“To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.”
“He (the Shaman) is a self-reliant explorer of the endless mansions of a magnificent hidden universe.”
“I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't want to tell someone how to "fix" a poem.”
“The more you photograph, the more you realize what can and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it.”
“I have a hard time finding something that I really enjoy reading, but I read 'The Great Gatsby' every summer.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Mediocrity is my biggest fear. I'm not afraid of total failure because I don't think that will happen. I'm not afraid of success because that beats the hell out of failure. It's being in the middle that scares me.”
“Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.”

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