💬 Quotes
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"They were condemned to one hundred years of solitude because they did not have the capacity to love."
— One Hundred Years of Solitudeby Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the fresh air, he drowns—hush! There is no way out."
— Lord Jimby Joseph Conrad
"And because he hadcomboBox no ordinary mind, he had to take himself too seriously, and do some sort of tragic stunt."
— Lord Jimby Joseph Conrad
"In the destructive element immerse. That was the way. To follow the dream, and again to follow the dream, and so—inwigilating—weary, but sure of no rest, till the dark star puts out the rest."
— Lord Jimby Joseph Conrad
"Nobody, unless he has looked into the face of a madness, can know what that means."
— Lord Jimby Joseph Conrad
"He is gone, inscrutable at heart, and full of mysterious devices, the wanderer upon a sea whose gulfs are fathomless."
— Lord Jimby Joseph Conrad
"Miracles, do you believe in them? I think miracles are not the cessation of the natural law, but the full perception and utilization of it."
— Death Comes for the Archbishopby Willa Cather
"The great Indian, Eusabio, stood against the pale sky like a bronze statue. He seemed to belong to the very soil, as if he had been formed out of the red earth."
— Death Comes for the Archbishopby Willa Cather
"It was his <strong>mission</strong> to be alone, to walk in the desert and find God not in the noise of cities, but in the vast, silent spaces."
— Death Comes for the Archbishopby Willa Cather
"A man's life is a journey through a wilderness, and the only light we have is the grace of God shining upon our path."
— Death Comes for the Archbishopby Willa Cather
"The Spaniards had been here for three hundred years; they had built churches and planted vineyards, but they had never really changed the heart of the country."
— Death Comes for the Archbishopby Willa Cather
"Old times were good because they were simple. But the new times have their own beauty, stern and difficult though it may be."
— Death Comes for the Archbishopby Willa Cather
"Human beings is like that; and I reckon if you was in Africa you'd feel just the way we did."
— Tom Sawyer Abroadby Mark Twain
"I see it warn't no use to argue with him; he had him and his iggoraunce pinned to a bayonet."
— Tom Sawyer Abroadby Mark Twain
"The trouble with people is, they don't know enough to know what they don't know."
— Tom Sawyer Abroadby Mark Twain
"Jim said he reckoned a man that set out to carry out a dead load of foolishness like that would have his hands full."
— Tom Sawyer Abroadby Mark Twain
"A person can't ever tell what's going to happen to him in this world, and you can't believe half of what you see neither."
— Tom Sawyer Abroadby Mark Twain
"It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make anything all right. But it was enough."
— The Kite Runnerby Khaled Hosseini