"A person may say I am not much concerned how long I stay in purgatory, provided I may come to eternal life. Let no one reason thus. Purgatory fire will be more dreadful than whatever torments can be seen imagined, or endured in this world. He who is afraid now to put his finger into the fire, does he not fear lest he be then all buried in torments for a long time?"

-- Caesarius of Arles

#Fire Quotes #Long Quotes #Doe Quotes

“I know there's a balance/I see it when I swing past.”
“You and I are going to change the world.”

Source : Leigh Bardugo (2012). “Shadow and Bone”, p.172, Macmillan
“I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.”
“I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little scene... I just thought I'd go back and draw my comics and have a happy life.”
“I've gotten a lot of comfort from the philosophy of the Roman Stoics. For me, one of the most powerful ideas of Stoicism is that you can't pick or choose in the world what you want to happen and what you don't want to happen, and that actually if you did get to choose, the version you would come up with would be unsociable, lame, and basically less beautiful than the truth.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.”
“I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos â€“ in which my existence was a random roll of the dice and I was destined to die and rot and then be gone forever â€“ was infinitely more comforting than the truth. Because the truth is that my God is coming back. When he arrives Iâ€™ll be waiting for him with a shotgun. And Iâ€™m keeping the last shell for myself.”

Source : "The Fuller Memorandum (The Laundry Files, Book 3)". Book by Charles Stross, July 1, 2010.
“Ironically, he'd yet to leave a good impression. First he'd spilled soda on her, next she'd seen him almost involved in a riot, and then this morning she'd believed him to be either lazy or an idiot.”

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