"Which would be worse, to live as a monster or to die as a good man?"

-- Dennis Lehane

#Men Quotes #Good Man Quotes #Monsters Quotes

“I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain.”
“Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling.”
“Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.”
“It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change.”
“In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates.”
“The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.”

Source : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2004). “Frankenstein”, p.265, Collector's Library
“True love is delicate and kind, full of gentle perception and understanding, full of beauty and grace, full of joy unutterable. There should be some flavor of this in all our love for others. We are all one. We are one flesh in the Mystical Body as man and woman are said to be one flesh in marriage. With such a love one would see all things new; we would begin to see people as they really are, as God sees them.”
“Every new form of liberation is destined to eventually become another form of enslavement for most of its adherents.”

Source : Peter J. Carroll (1987). “Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic”, p.45, Weiser Books

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