You were correct, for all men have within them both that which is dark and that which is light. A man is a thing of many divisions, not a pure, clear flame such as you once were. His intellect often wars with his emotions, his will with his desires. his ideals are at odds with his environment, and if he follows them, he knows keenly the loss of that which was old, but if he does not follow them, he feels the pain of having forsaken a new and noble dream. Whatever he does represents both a gain and a loss, an arrival and a departure. Always he mourns that which is gone and fears some part of that which is new. Reason opposes tradition. Emotions oppose the restrictions his fellow men lay upon him. Always, from the friction of these things, there arises the thing you called the curse of man and mocked; guilt!. Roger Zelazny
The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Unknown
I don't know why people are afraid of lust. Then I can imagine that they are very afraid of me, for I have a great lust for everything. A lust for life, a lust for how the summer-heated street feels beneath my feet, a lust...
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C. Joybell C.
In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.
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Sophie Kinsella
It seems that a profound, impartial, and absolutely just opinion of our fellow-creatures is utterly unknown. Either we are men, or we are women. Either we are cold, or we are sentimental. Either we are young, or growing old. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>In any case life...
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Virginia Woolf
I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.
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Steve Martin
More Quotes By Roger Zelazny
I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.
Nobody steals books but your friends.
To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.
It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart–never the sensation of the moment.
Then every man would be as a god, you see. The result of this, of course, would be that there would no longer be any gods, only men. We would give them knowledge of the sciences and the arts, which we possess, and in so...
