"There are personalities so powerful that they leave their stamp on any place they inhabit. Their presence is always there, like a spoor, whether or not they themselves are."

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Caroline Llewellyn

#Powerful Quotes #Personality Quotes #Stamps Quotes

“Look: We hate nothing that exists, not even death, suffering and dying, does not horrify our souls, as long as we learn more deeply to love.”
“Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition.”
“The only one taking a risk here is me, if I get too attached to you. Itâ€™s not risky for you, as long as youâ€™re not confused either.â€ â€œIâ€™m not.â€ â€œOf course you arenâ€™t.â€ A small smile played on Balthazarâ€™s lips.”
“I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.”
“The darkest secret of this country, I am afraid, is that too many of its citizens imagine that they belong to a much higher civilization somewhere else. That higher civilization doesnâ€™t have to be another country. It can be the past insteadâ€”the United States as it was before it was spoiled by immigrants and the enfranchisement of the blacks. This state of mind allows too many of us to lie and cheat and steal from the rest of us, to sell us junk and addictive poisons and corrupting entertainments. What are the rest of us, after all, but sub-human aborigines?”
“So far he's bringing his A-game.”
“Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.”
“Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.”

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