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What I am and what I would are as secret as maidenhead; to your ears divinity, to any others profanation.

Cheshire Puss,' she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider. 'Come, it's pleased so far,' thought Alice, and she went on. 'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?' 'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.

It would make me feel that I have power. But such a feeling would be an illusion, and too risky.

I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light. There must be a resistance, or where do all the criminals come from, on the television?

they were believed and trusted, but most of all they were listened to.

Watch your language, if you don't mind."What a lady, boy. A queen, for Chrissake.

They couldn’t touch him because he was Tarzan, Mandrake, Flash Gordon. He was Bill Shakespeare. He was Cain, Ulysses, the Flying Dutchman; he was Lot in Sodom, Deirdre of the Sorrows, Sweeney in the nightingales among trees.

There was a lust of wandering in his feet that burned to set out for the ends of the earth. On! On! his heart seemed to cry. Evening would deepen above the sea, night fall upon the plains, dawn glimmer before the wanderer and show him strange fields and hills and faces. Where?

For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.

For give the dry fool drink, then is the fool not dry. Bid the dishonest man mend himself. If he mend, he is no longer dishonest. If he cannot, let the botcher mend him. Anything

He asked me why I had put Maman in the home. I answered that it was because I didn’t have the money to have her looked after and cared for. He asked me if it had been hard on me, and I answered that Maman and I didn’t expect anything from each other anymore, or from anyone else either, and that we had both gotten used to our new lives.

Bırakıyorum, aksın gözyaşlarım. Olan bu, ağlama değil. Bir sandalyede oturup bir sünger gibi su sızdırıyorum.

There can be alliances even in such places, even under such circumstances. This is something you can depend upon: there will always be alliances, of one kind or another. (...)For every rule there is always an exception: this too can be depended upon.

She answered him sincerely that she would never marry a man who was so simple that he had wasted almost an hour and even went without lunch just to see a woman taking a bath.

M-am întors în cameră şi m-am băgat în pat. Mi-a trebuit foarte mult timp pînă s-adorm - nici măcar nu eram obosit - , dar, în cele din urmă, tot am aţipit. De fapt, ceea ce doream atunci era să mă sinucid. Îmi venea să mă arunc pe fereastră. Şi probabil că m-aş fi aruncat dac-aş fi fost sigur c-are să mă acopere cineva îndată ce voi ajunge jos. N-aş fi vrut ca nişte tîmpiţi de gură-cască să se zgîiască la mine, în timp ce-aş fi zăcut acolo plin de sînge.

And in the hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the fecund and mysterious life seemed to look at her, pensive, as though it had been looking at the image of its own tenebrous and passionate soul.

The spirit of quarrelsome comradeship which he had observed lately in his rival had not seduced Stephen from his habits of quiet obedience. He mistrusted the turbulence and doubted the sincerity of such comradeship which seemed to him a sorry anticipation of manhood.

Come on, come on; you are pictures out of doors,Bells in your parlours, wild cats in your kitchens,Saints in your injuries, devils being offended,Players in your housewifery, and housewives in your beds.

Yes, and shall do till the pangs of death shake him. Infirmity, that decays the wise, doth ever make the better fool.

Even in the prisoner’s dock it’s always interesting to hear people talk about you.