"It's what you do to yourself when you go mad with rage. You have no idea how much you can hurt yourself with your own strength."

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Source : Lian Hearn (2008). “Across the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori”, p.242, Pan Macmillan

Lian Hearn

#Hurt Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Mad Quotes

“I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.”
“I don't think I will ever do any tours again in the United States. I rather think that that's over with.”
“How easily men satisfy themselves that the Constitution is exactly what they wish it to be”

Source : Joseph Story (2013). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States”, p.14, Quid Pro Books
“By the 1990s, longevity will be so improved that 150 years will be no unusual age to reach.”
“Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, 'I will compose poetry.' The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness...and the conscious portions of our natures are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure.”
“To do well does not mean everything will always turn out well. The key is to remember that faith and obedience are still the answers, even when things go wrong, perhaps especially when things go wrong.”
“I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.”

Source : Quoted in Wall Street Journal, 26 May 1989
“Rappin bout blunts and broads, Tits and bras, mÃ©nage Ã trois, sex in expensive cars...”

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