John Speed Quotes

#1. My thoughts were gentle, not so long ago. I no longer have that luxury.

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#2. Here in this old palace, untouched by the winds of change, here maybe some magic happens, for a little while. But the day must come when she will walk the road across the lake, and on that day, in the sad, heartless world on the other shore, you know it cannot last she is a slave.

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#3. The gods cannot place their gifts into a closed fist. First your hand must be emptied, then the gifts may be received. We poor fools call this loss, and we suffer, but it is the blessing of the gods.

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#4. You can't trust even thieves these days.

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#5. Maybe he loves her. Maybe he wishes to have her forever, maybe he wishes that she could be his bride. Even then he might lose much to be with her-his properties, his position. But next to his love for her, what meaning do they have? He would be a fool to treasure dead gold more then a live heart.

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#6. The road is not certain, and the end of the journey cannot be seen.

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#7. Life is a caravan, and on this journey we sleep in many tents. Tomorrow I shall sleep in a different tent.

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#8. Finally Lucinda grew used to her silence, and began not only to accept it, but treasure it. She too grew quiet. For the first time she heard the music of her heart.

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#9. The dew on the leaves before the sun rises.
The silence before the cock crows.
The eggshell not yet broken by its chick.
Not what is, but what might be.

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#10. This is desire, daughter, the endless piercing that informs the universe throughout eternity,

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#11. To worship means to feel distance. But God is not distant.

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#12. In Islam, all living things have souls. We are made pure by the fire of the lord compassion.

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#13. I think we were very foolish, you and I.

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#14. Jews ate the English nation to its bones.

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#15. When one carries poison, thoughts of death are never far away.

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#16. Things are best that way, Deoga. Forgetting, not remembering. You Farangs become encumbered with your past. The past drives you mad. It keeps you from acting sensibly.

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#17. You are closer to me than my breath,

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#18. Leave me now as one leaves a corpse ... with regret, and memories, but without a second look.

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#19. I smell like brett riley

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#20. On suicide:
Those are vanities, child. They cause immeasurable suffering in this life and all future lives. Who knows, perhaps you have been given this harsh portion because of misdeeds in some past life.

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#21. We sleep in many tents,

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#22. It's one thing to be helpless as one tries to lace a corset or to mount an elephant, quite another to be helpless as a bandit pushes a black steel knife against the flesh of your throat while his brother comes to join him.

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#23. I do not dream anymore, nor do I sleep. My days are empty, my nights endless. My only thought is of her, this murderer. But despite what you say, she brings me life.

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#24. At my age a man discovers regret, Senhor Mouse. I pursued blood instead of beauty. My memories are all of killing. I've forgotten the rest. Sometimes I cannot sleep.

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