Favorite quotes from literature.

[Cato]

TGAC,

I will reply with a quote from Ulysses that still haunts me; "Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine."

[Minimalist]

Encouraged by this, her hands became extremely free, and wandered over my whole body, with touches, squeezes, pressures, that rather warmed and surprised me with their novelty, than they either shocked or alarmed me.

The flattering praises she intermingled with these invasions, contributed also not a little to bribe my passiveness; and, knowing no ill, I feared none, especially from one who had prevented all doubts of her womanhood, by conducting my hands to a pair of breasts that hung loosely down, in a size and volume that full sufficiently distinguished her sex, to me at least, who had never made any other comparison.


Fanny Hill, 1749

[Nilsson]

Heim kommt man nie. Aber wo befreundete Wege zusammenlaufen, da sieht die ganze Welt für eine Stunde wie Heimat aus.

(One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time).

Demian, Herman Hesse.


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[FlyingNarwhal]

[django]

“Where men can't live gods fare no better.” cormac mccarrthy(The Road)

“Had you ‘artists’ had a part in the decoration of the Sistine Chapel, it would have ended up looking like a particularly vulgar train terminal,” Ignatius snorted.
John Kennedy Toole (Confederacy of Dunces)

[BrokenQuill92]

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." - Albus Dumbledore

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Chapter 12 The Mirror of Erised

[Jacob(smooth)]

Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Tennyson

I have that on the wall in my office. Given the changes happening in the NHS (few of them very good) some days it keeps me going.

[Angrboda]

Frodo: It's a pity Bilbo didn't kill him when he had the chance.
Gandalf: Pity? It was pity that stayed Bilbo's hand. Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo?

~ LOTR: Fellowship Of The Ring (film, 2001)