"That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience."

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Victor Hugo

#Men Quotes #Faces Quotes #Saws Quotes

“The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.”
“The fine arts, both in those who cultivate and those only who admire them, open and expand the mind to great ideas. They inspire liberal feelings, create a harmony of temper, favorable to a sense of justice and a habit of moderation in our social intercourse.”
“You should have taken me with you," I whisper to him. Then I lean my head against his and begin to cry. In my mind, I make a silent promise to my brother's killer. I will hunt you down. I will scour the streets of Los Angeles for you. Search every street in the Republic if I have to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine.”

Source : Marie Lu (2011). “Legend”, p.45, Penguin
“Is there no end to this escalation of desire?”
“For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into.”
“A mind free from all disturbances is Yoga.”
“We all have that moment in life when something terrible happens for the first time. Something so unexpected, so awful, that it takes the magic out of the world. Life becomes harder, colder. And everything we do in our lives, from that day on, is our way of coping with that one moment. We stop living and we merely exist. We either choose to move on from that, or we let it consume us.”

Source : Robin Parrish (2007). “Relentless (Dominion Trilogy Book #1)”, p.199, Baker Books
“God has given us the fascination and mystery of irrational numbers, as one aspect of a rich world”

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