"He was a man who would never ask for sympathy. He was a man who sought only to do what was right. Such people appear in the world, every world, now and then, like a single refrain of some blessed song, a fragment caught on the spur of an otherwise raging cacophony. Imagine a world without such souls. Yes, it should have been harder to do."

-- Steven Erikson

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“We teach that a person must practice only one cultivation way. No matter how you practice cultivation, you should not mess up your cultivation by adding other things.”

Source : Li Hongzhi, Hongzhi Li (2001). “Zhuan Falun: The Complete Teachings of Falun Gong”, Fair Winds Press
“You'll never get a boyfriend if you look like you wandered out of Auschwitz.”
“[The heart is] really a fascinating organ. It's about the only organ in the body that you can really witness its function. Doing things. And so on. Some of the other organs you can witness, like the intestines, will have this sort of peristaltic motion. But nothing that can compare with the activity of the human heart.”
“A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager.”

Source : Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker
“Do any of us know how we’re actually doing? Whether or not all the hard work and good intentions are paying off?”
“It wasn't like I felt I was on a wave. It was just so easy. It is only afterwards that I thought I really had a bit of good luck going on there with Yazoo.”
“People think I'm thick because of the characters I play. I think I'm brighter than the characters. Well, I hope I am.”
“The cat is, above all things, a dramatist.”

Source : Margaret Benson (1901). “The soul of a cat: and other stories”

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