Interesting quotes!

Here are some citations from different books that I read or am currently reading. They'd be a mean of expression for me and hope to encourage poeple to read more books ;

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" And beleive me, if I still value my life it is only because I still hope to meet such a divine creature who will regenerate, purify, and elevate me. But you don't understand it."

-Leo Tolstoy- in War and Peace

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"In describing this siren, singing and smiling, coaxing and cajoling, the author, with modest pride, asks his readers all round, has he once forgotten the laws of pliteness, and showed the monster's hideous tail above water? No! Those who like may peep down under waves that are pretty tranparent, and see it writhing and twirling, diabolically hideous and slimy, flapping amongst bones, or curling round corpses; but above the waterline, I ask, has not everything been proper, agrreable and decorous, and has any the most squeamish moralist in Vanity Fair a right to cry fie? When however, the siren disappears and dives below, down among the dead men, the water of course grows turbid over her, and it is labour lost to look into it ever so curiously. They look pretty enough when they sit upon a rock, twanging their harps and combing their hair, and sing, and beckon to you to come and hold the looking-glass; but when they sink into their native element, depend on it those mermaids are about no good, and we had best not examine the fiendish marine cannibals, revelling and feasting on their wretched pickled victims."

(W. M. Thackeray, Vanity fair, pp. 620-621)

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"I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have and to be forced to yield; or to sink out of life, having played and lost the game? That must be a strange feeling , when a day of our life comes and we say " To-morrow, success or failure won't matter much : and the sun will rise, and all the myriads of mankind go to their work or their pleasure as usual, but I shall be out of the turmoil.""

(W. M. Thackeray, 1877)

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"The hidden and awful wisdom wich apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise ; and to set up the selfish , the foolish, or the wicked. Oh, be humble, my brother in you're prosperity! Be gentel with those who are less lucky, if not more deserving. Think, what right have you to be scornful, whose virtue is a deficiency of temptation, whose success may be a chance, whose rank may be an ancestor's accident, whose prosperity is very likely a satire."

(W. M. Thackeray, 1877, p.553)

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"Les causes sont incéssantes dans une vie d'homme, une cause de bonheur peut succéder à une cause de malheur. L'événement qui provoque une souffrance un jour peut être utilisé pour créer du bonheur un autre jour. Les cascades de causes font converger des forces opposées qui peuvent réparer un enfant ou l'aggraver, le pousser dans un sens ou le freiner."

(Cyrulnik, 2005, p.31)