Random Quotes from Anywhere

a dumping ground of quotes I stumbled across on my reading journey

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a man must permit his deeds and his words to agree. When your actions describe a system of evil consequences, you should be judged by those consequences and not by your actions.

Children of Dune

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this was a living monument, a time to discover regularities within perpetual change

Children of Dune

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For sometimes it is only by looking at another that we can see the truth in ourselves.

Embers, by Vathara

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Art, from the beginning, endeavored to express emotions and historical facts to be understood by all human souls of all nations, without need of written words. Art uses the gestures of human beings, the atmosphere of the universe to convey thought and emotions and to record events. Without thought and emotions, it has no reason for existence.

Anna Lea Merritt

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And when our sense of writing changes, our entire model of knowledge shifts. Emily Dickinson was a woman; she wrote consciously and with profound insight about her womanly life. If we who read her are women, her accomplishment enlarges our recognition of ourselves.

Helen McNeil, from Readings on Emily Dickinson

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A successful work of art is a consequence of the integration of conscious and unconscious elements; a balance of what is known and not quite known held in an exquisite tension.

Joyce Carol Oates, from Readings on Emily Dickinson 

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For the "poetic enterprise" is nothing less than the attempt to realize the soul. And the attempt to realize the soul (in its muteness, its perfection) is nothing less than the attempt to create a poetry of transcendence--the kind that outlives human habitation and its name.

Joyce Carol Oates, from Readings on Emily Dickinson

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a poem is an idea caught fresh in the act of dawning.

Robert Frost

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We know nothing of justice if we know nothing of strife.

Mark van Doren, from Readings on Robert Frost

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Evil comes, and we do our best to defy it. But always, there is a loss. That is the cost of courage.

Embers, by Vathara

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nothing that is human is eternal

Don Quixote, Chapter LXXIV

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Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

Dune: Messiah

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Love them that hate you, but you can't love them whom you hate.

Anna Karenina

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Algebra is applied to the clouds; the radiation of the stars profits the rose; no thinker would venture to affirm that the perfume of the Hawthorne is useless to the constellations. Who, then, can calculate the course of a molecule? How do we know that the creation of worlds is not determined by the fall of grains of sand?

Les Miserables

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Everything toils at everything.

Les Miserables

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Nothing is small, in fact; anyone who is subject to the profound and penetrating influence of nature knows this.

Les Miserables

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All birds that fly have around their leg the thread of the infinite.

Les Miserables