"Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to."
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"Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded."
"If you believe you can, you might. If you know you can, you will."
"...at some point you need to stop looking out at others and start looking inward, at yourself, at your own accomplishments, at your own foibles, at your own successes and your own failures. It's only when you begin to look inward that you can begin to have an effect on those out there, the ones with the greedy eyes and outstretched hands."
"As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse."
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."
"You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it's shining on the same physical landscape, all the atoms are in place."
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
"In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be, by remaining what we are."
"Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it."
"The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal."
"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers."
"I am in full possession of the amazing power of being sarcastic."
"Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves."
"Realize that if a door closed, it’s because what was behind it wasn’t meant for you."
"Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living."
"You know you made it, when your friends tell their friends that you are their friend."
"عجيبة هي الحياة بمنطقها المعاكس. أنت تركض خلف الأشياء لاهثاً، فتهرب الأشياء منك. وما تكاد تجلس وتقنع نفسك بأنها لا تستحق كل هذا الركض، حتى تأتيك هي لاهثة. وعندها لا تدري أيجب أن تدير لها ظهرك أم تفتح لها ذراعيك، وتتلقى هذه الهبة التي رمتها السماء إليك، والتي قد تكون فيها سعادتك، أو هلاكك؟"
"You're the one who made it seem like we were doing something wrong. Maybe you still feel like that, because for whatever reason, you think I'm not good enough for you. But I like you, okay? I've liked you from the very beginning.""It was never going anywhere""Because you wouldn't let it go anywhere."
"Some minutes or hours or days later, when I lay boneless and well satisfied, Ethan raised his gaze to mine again. His eyes were silver, his fangs descended. "There is no going back,"he said, "Not after this."
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