๐ฌ Quotes
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"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings."
โ Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; / The valiant never taste of death but once."
โ Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; / I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him."
โ Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare
"His life was gentle, and the elements / So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up / And say to all the world 'This was a man!'"
โ Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare
"It is a way of saying: this is the effort of the day, this is the contribution to the world, and this is how it ends."
โ The hoursby Michael Cunningham
"I believe I may have made a mistake. I thought I was becoming someone, but perhaps I was just becoming someone else."
โ The hoursby Michael Cunningham
"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. For Lucy had her work cut out for her."
โ The hoursby Michael Cunningham
"A poet who can't write, a mother who can't mother, a woman who can't leave her life."
โ The hoursby Michael Cunningham
"That is the terror of it, isn't it? That we live our lives, we do these things, and we are just people who are waiting to die."
โ The hoursby Michael Cunningham
"If it is a gift, it is a terrible one. To be able to see the world as it is, and to be unable to do anything but watch it slip away."
โ The hoursby Michael Cunningham
"I wanted only to try to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?"
โ Demianby Hermann Hesse
"The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world."
โ Demianby Hermann Hesse
"It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement."
โ Demianby Hermann Hesse
"You must find your own dream, then the way becomes easy. But there is no dream that lasts forever, each one is followed by a new one, and one should not cling to any."
โ Demianby Hermann Hesse
"Everything, even the most evil, was part of the divine, and the whole world was a mixture of God and the Devil."
โ Demianby Hermann Hesse
"Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings."
โ Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare