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The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs; he is also a demure, ...more

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If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, ...more

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I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals ...more

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The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.

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When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him.

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When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "...more

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When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse, he understands his ...more

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When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less.

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The old dealt with its pupils as grown birds deal with young birds when they teach them to fly; the new deals with them more as the poultry-keeper dea...more

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the difference between the old and the new education being) in a word, the old was a kind of propagation - men transmitting manhood to men; the new is...more

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By the way, don't 'weep inwardly' and get a sore throat. If you must weep, weep: a good honest howl! I suspect we - and especially, my sex - don't cry...more

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Man is to be understood only in his relation to God.

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Man is now a horror to God and himself and a creature ill-adapted to the universe not because God made him so but because he has made himself so by th...more

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A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others...thus, while the woman thinks of doing goo...more

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A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basical...more