We speak the truth because we live in truth.
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Unknown
There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.
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George Orwell
But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad, " replied Martin.
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Voltaire
No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small part of it. Where we live and who we live there with define the terms of our relationship to the...
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Wendell Berry
But just as the river is always at the door, so is the world always outside. And it is in the world that we have to live.
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Lian Hearn
More Quotes By George R.r. Martin
The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.
I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave.
I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.
How can you still count yourself a knight, when you have forsaken every vow you ever swore?" Jaime reached for the flagon to refill his cup. "So many vows..they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>Keep his secrets....
I know I want you, " he heard himself say, all his vows and his honor all forgotten. She stood before him naked as her name day, and he was as hard as the rock around them. He had been in her half a hundred...
