"If there be no enemy, no fight; if do fight, no victory; if no victory, no crown."

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Girolamo Savonarola

#Fighting Quotes #Evil Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“Every child has a legitimate narcissistic need to be noticed, understood, taken seriously, and respected by his mother. In the first weeks and months of life he needs to have the mother at his disposal, must be able to use her and to be mirrored by her.”
“It is the unspecified 'you' of modern love poems that I am mostly concerned with here. At least, the addressee is commonly a lover, and the very fact that the name is withheld is offered as a guarantee of the closeness and significance of the relationship.”

Source : John Fuller (2011). “Who Is Ozymandias?: And other Puzzles in Poetry”, p.194, Random House
“I am a fan of today's sound as long as we don't get too slick, and yet I am very reverent of my roots.”
“Lord of the Rings, I think, is far and away the most brilliantly done stuff.”
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
“Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.”

Source : Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”
“Best way to deal with fear is to confront it.”
“Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family,and note the absorption of the person by the persona, the individual by the role. Then multiply the family, and the authority, by some hundreds and see the effect upon a sea-captain, to say nothing of an absolute monarch.Surely man in general is born to be oppressed or solitary, if he is to be fully human; unless it so happens that he is immune to the poison.”

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