“Darkness reveals truths that no sun can bring to light, for inside the heart of man resides a beast, only tamed by the shackles of the day.”
“If I had known That day follows the night, That every shadow is cast by light, I would have understood The actions that he took.”
“Life is like riding a ship into the storm. For every wave you take up, you have to drop just as deep.”
“For every God there is a Satan, and because God made all of us godly, there is a Satan in us all.”
“You must become your enemy to truly understand him.”
“Knowledge is power. The moment the masses acquire this power, control fades. And when control fades, chaos erupts.”
“Power is like a house of cards. Leave it alone and it will stand forever. But if you try to build it higher and higher, sooner or later it is bound to collapse.”
“The men history declares heroes are merely heroes because they failed to survive their benevolent acts.”
“Call it devilish or divine, but once a man lets a thought become prevalent, it turns into reality.”
“Sometimes we hold the world in our hands, but in our greed for more let it fall, losing everything that we once had.”
“Our cure for pain is the very root of it: Revenge.”
“Human hearts are not made out of stone.
Thank Thor.
They can break, and heal, and beat again.”
“Why be miserable when you can be happy? It’s an obvious choice to me.”
“It did not occur to me at the time that her radiance had a spiritual dimension, owing nothing to the values of the temporal world.”
“Swirling a glass of ice splashed with Scotch, the host seemed oblivious to the contradiction between what he’d just finished saying and what he was now showing me. After his second drink, he began to tell me about his failed marriage, to an American. “She insisted on riding around in my Rolls without covering her face. Of course, everyone stared at her,” he said with distaste. After”
“What a glut of books! Who can read them?”
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