Shota Rustaveli · 259 pages
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“Know that a rose without thorns has never been plucked”
― Shota Rustaveli, quote from The Knight in the Panther's Skin
“That which we give makes us richer, that which is hoarded is lost”
― Shota Rustaveli, quote from The Knight in the Panther's Skin
“Death finds his way unimpeded, be the path narrow or rocky”
― Shota Rustaveli, quote from The Knight in the Panther's Skin
“828"Heart, mind and thought depend one upon p. 133 another. When heart goes the others also go and follow it. A man deprived of heart cannot play the man; he is chased forth from men. Thou”
― Shota Rustaveli, quote from The Knight in the Panther's Skin
“სადა გინდ ვიყო, რა მგამა, ყოფამცა მქონდა ნებისა!”
― Shota Rustaveli, quote from The Knight in the Panther's Skin
“The heart cannot survive when you on it excessive joy bestow.”
― Shota Rustaveli, quote from The Knight in the Panther's Skin
“I like that people can just look at you and know that you are taken, that you are mine.” He closed his eyes and laughed. “And yes, I know that sentiment is at the top of the Women’s Liberation Movement’s list of things not to say to a modern woman.”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from River Marked
“Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.”
― quote from I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
“Morality was not relative, they claimed, nor even existing solely in the realm of the human condition. No, they proclaimed morality as an imperative of all life, a natural law that was neither the brutal acts of beasts nor the lofty ambitions of humanity, but something other, something unassailable.”
― Steven Erikson, quote from Gardens of the Moon
“Surrender to your fear so you may triumph over it.”
― Simon Holt, quote from The Devouring
“Nie chciałeś wziąć ze mną ślubu w kościele i to złamało serce mojej biednej matce, o czym dobrze wiesz. Tak cię kochałam, że było mi obojętne, czyje serce łamię dla ciebie. Och, że też mogłam być taka głupia. Sobie samej też złamałam serce. Wyrzekłam się wszystkiego, w co wierzyłam i co było mi drogie, bo byłeś taki cudowny i tak mnie kochałeś, że tylko twoja miłość się liczyła. Miłość była jedyną piękną rzeczą na świecie, prawda? Miłość była skarbem, który tylko myśmy posiadali i którego nikt poza nami nie posiadał, i nie mógł posiadać, prawda? Ty byleś geniuszem, a ja byłam twoim całym życiem. Byłam twoją towarzyszką życia i twoim ślicznym czarnym kwiatem. Sentymentalne bzdury. Miłość to jeszcze jedno plugawe kłamstwo. […] Do diabla z miłością. […] Miłość to te wszystkie plugawe sztuczki, których mnie nauczyłeś, a które sam wyczytałeś pewnie w jakichś książkach. Doskonale. Tylko ze ja mam dosyć ciebie i mam dosyć miłości. Twojego rodzaju miłości. Ty pisarzu.”
― Ernest Hemingway, quote from To Have and Have Not
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