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- The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways--I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), Quoted in: Plato's Apology, sct. 42a. Last words of his speech to the court following the sentence of death imposed on him by the Athenians.
- I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), In "Apology," sct. 21, by Plato.
- Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving.
- Alan Paton (1903 - 1988), Cry the Beloved Country
- Desperate is not a sexual preference.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Postive, 01-08-09
- Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
- W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
- There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
- Jack London (1876 - 1916), The Call of the Wild
- And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), The Prophet
- He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527), The Prince
- A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club
- When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005
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