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In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has thrust up to its hilt inside us.

In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has thrust up to its hilt inside us.
– Nicols Gmez Dvila

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  1. Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
  2. Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching thewalls of his dungeon. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
  3. Everything that makes man feel that mystery envelops him makes him more intelligent. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
  4. To be right is just one more reason not to achieve any success. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
  5. Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
  6. The individual seeks out the heat of the crowd, in this century, to protect himself against the cold emanating from the corpse of the world. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
  7. Being a reactionary is not about believing in certain solutions, but about having an acute sense of the complexity of the problems. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
  8. Liberty is not an end, but a means. Whoever mistakes it for an end does not know what to do once he attains it. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
  9. Liberty is not an end, but a means. Whoever mistakes it for an end does not know what to do once he attains it. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
  10. The particular creature we love is never God’s rival. What ends in apostasy is the worship of man, the cult of humanity. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
  11. Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
  12. Ideas tyrannize the man who has but few. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
  13. The simplistic ideas in which the unbeliever ends up believing are his punishment. – Nicols Gmez
  14. Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you – or unmaking you. – Nicolas Bouvier
  15. As soon as Neil is out of the shower, he texts Peter. You up? he asks.And the reply comes instantly:For anything. – David Levithan
  16. I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon. – Catherine Astolfo
  17. Whatever role you play, play it to the hilt. – Lynn Flewelling
  18. Be the hero of your own life story. Live to the hilt. – Sravani Saha Nakhro
  19. You leave home, I have learned, counting the trip day by day. If you ever get to return, you count the trip miracle by miracle. – Gregory Maguire
  20. Regret, albeit raw and relentless, is almost always unremarkable. – Kris Kidd
  21. The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story. – Anita Diamant
  22. This land needed a sword forged in the hottest of fires to regain what was lost…and you are that sword. – S Alexander OKeefe
  23. Slowly, the light receded, and she could see a singe sword, hanging in the air, a sword of pure white, of light and truth. – Tyrean Martinson
  24. The pen is truly mightier than the sword. Unless you’re holding a pen and the other guy’s holding a sword. – Dave Besseling
  25. Shed not recklessly the blood of another with thy sword,Lest the Sword on High falls upon thy neck. – Guru Gobind Singh
  26. All human beings wield influence-”a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care. – Richelle E Goodrich
  27. If you carry a sword, you obey the sword, not the other way round. Nobody can hold a weapon and keep their hands clear of blood at the same time. – Elif Shafak
  28. Once you take sword in your hand, you will lose your right to talk about the peace! Man of peace and love never takes the sword in his hand! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  29. I can’t protect you without holding a sword. I can’t embrace you while holding a sword. – Tite Kubo
  30. A bolt that raised her heart to blazing heightAnd made the vertical the very thrust of hope,And found its path at last(Slow work of Grace). – May Sarton
  31. The would-be Sufi needs guidance precisely because books, texts, while telling you what is needed, do not tell you when. – Idries Shah
  32. learning texts is worth doing not because it’s easy but because it’s hard. – Joshua Foer
  33. The fact that you have unlimited texts does not necessarily mean that you cannot stop talking – Dmitry Dyatlov
  34. Caches of data are being recovered all the time. Why, just the other day, I heard that we now had complete texts for all three of Shakespire’s plays! – Dan Abnett
  35. Jewish texts compare the knowable universe to the size of a mustard seed. Similar association between God and man made in Quran, Buddhism. – Sudhir Ahluwalia
  36. We had an unspoken love for one another. Probably because she’d never talk to me or return my phone calls or texts.-¨ – Dark Jar Tin Zoo
  37. Best wishes to all the fonts in all the texts in all the books that make for a world of unfolding stories. – Michael Ray Smith
  38. Mine is to chew on the appropriate texts and make them delectable. – Gregory of Nyssa
  39. we have quoted freely from the Scriptures and have sought to furnish proof-texts for every statement we have advanced. – Arthur W Pink
  40. Lovely phrases had lit candles in her mind, one after the other, till she felt intoxicated with the brightness. – Elizabeth Goudge

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