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But there is only one thing that has power completely, and this is love. Because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibilty, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes—how such people think nothing of abusing a man with low intelligence.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Everything intelligent is so boring.

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy.

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

She was a girl with a mountain to climb.

From now on I'm thinking only of me."Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: "But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way.""Then," said Yossarian, "I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?

Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.

We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.

It always smelled like it was raining outside, even if it wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry, cosy place in the world.

They were French, they were Jews, and they were you.

I'd rather wonder than get answers I couldn't live with.

War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.

I don't want to hear any words like that while I'm here. Scout, you'll get in trouble if you go around saying things like that. You want to grow up to be a lady, don't you?'I said not particularly.

In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep, you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were. I don't know what I am. I don't know if I am or not. Jewel knows he is, because he does not know that he does not know whether he is or not. He cannot empty himself for sleep because he is not what he is and he is what he is not. Beyond the unlamped wall I can hear the rain shaping the wagon that is ours, the load that is no longer theirs that felled and sawed it nor yet theirs that bought it and which is not ours either, lie on our wagon though it does, since only the wind and the rain shape it only to Jewel and me, that are not asleep. And since sleep is is-not and rain and wind are was, it is not. Yet the wagon is, because when the wagon is was, Addie Bundren will not be. And Jewel is, so Addie Bundren must be. And then I must be, or I could not empty myself for sleep in a strange room. And so if I am not emptied yet, I am is.How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.

There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.