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#1

“Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

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#2

“Don't trust a perfect person and don't trust a song that's flawless.”
― Tyler Joseph

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#5

“Nothing kills a man faster than its own head.”
― Tyler Joseph

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#5

“Let me take a little second to tell you as we see a prophecy that came true
You see we need to believe that He literally bled through
The clothes on His back His sweat the day was just like crimson rain
Crimson stains tide bounty and the devil can't wash these stains away
Who's He you ask, He's a friend of me
Cause my inability He was sent for me
I hear birds and trees they're all telling me
It's a good thing He won Gethsemane
Cause this enemy is too much for me
And this flesh and world is triple teaming me
It seems to be the very end I scream please oh please pass this cup from me!
The thing is it did pass
And it passes every day
He took my cup from me and gracefully He drank the grave
And I don't mean to speak of blasphemy when I say
But I am speaking of the day when my God passed away, Okay?
No wait wait wait no that's not it no that's not all
I don't wanna leave you hanging
This stories banging
Against my throat and against these walls
It can't be contained no it won't stay in here it will thrive
Cause stories just don't die when the dead come alive”
― Tyler Joseph

tags: crimson, jesus, resurrection, top, twenty-one-pilots

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#9

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

tags: abilities, choices

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#12

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

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#13

“I am not to blame, you know,
whether the child is male or female.
God who created and who watches over mankind
has decreed that the mother should be happy
and the father pleased with any child.”
― Heldris de Cornualles, Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance

tags: creation, fatherhood, gender-equality, god, male-and-female, motherhood, parents-and-children

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#14

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.'

'In fact,' said Mustapha Mond, 'you're claiming the right to be unhappy.'

'All right then,' said the Savage defiantly, 'I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.'

'Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.' There was a long silence.

'I claim them all,' said the Savage at last.

Mustapha Mond shrugged his shoulders. 'You're welcome," he said.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: choice, freedom, happiness, rights, unhappiness

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#15

“Go to a chamber and learn to sew!
That's what Nature's usage wants of you!
You are not Silentius!"
and he replied, "I never heard that before!
Not Silentius? Who am I then?
Silentius is my name, I think,
or I am other than who I was.
But this I know well, upon my oath,
that I cannot be anybody else!
Therefore, I am Silentius,
as I see it, or I am no one.”
― Heldris de Cornualles, Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance

tags: french-literature, gender-identity, medieval-romance, transgender, transgender-man, transmasc

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#19

“But the sweet face of Lucy Gray
Will never more be seen.
The storm came on before its time:
She wandered up and down;
And many a hill did Lucy climb:
But never reached the town.”
― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

tags: lucy-gray

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#20

“MILTON! thou shouldst be living at this hour:
England hath need of thee: she is a fen
Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen,
Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower,
Have forfeited their ancient English dower
Of inward happiness. We are selfish men;
Oh! Raise us up, return to us again,
And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power!”
― William Wordsworth, London, 1802

tags: artistry, england, heroism, john-milton, london, milton, romanticism, societal-decay, stagnation

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#20

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: dreams, life

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#20

“There is a tyranny in the womb of every Utopia.”
― Bertrand De Jouvenel

tags: soveriegnty, tyranny, utopia

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#24

“I was trying to make life easy for myself,
but I have a mouth too hard for kisses,
and arms too rough for embraces.
One could easily make a fool of me
in any game played under the covers,
for I'm a young man, not a girl.”
― Heldris de Cornualles, Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance

tags: gender-identity, gender-roles, medieval-french-literature, medieval-romance, sexuality, trans-male, trans-man, transgender-issues

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#26

“A good woman should neither take offense
nor blame herself for someone else's faults,
but simply strive all the harder to do what is right.”
― Heldris de Cornualles, Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance

tags: double-standards, french-literature, medieval-romance, morality, morals, women, women-empowerment

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#27

“If he who hath posterity in Sion and kindred in Jerusalem hath been called happy, verily how much happier are we, for we have posterity in the heavenly Jerusalem. Verily.....”
― A J and Albertus Schwengler: Wensinck, Legends of Eastern Saints Chiefly from Syriac Sources. Volume 1: Archelides; Volume 2: Hilaria. Bound with: Eusebii Pamphilii Historiae Ecclesiasticae Lib X, Ed A Schwegler.

tags: blessing, blessings, comfort, kingdom-of-god, new-jerusalem, salvation, theology

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#30

“It is not settled happiness but momentary joy that glorifies the past.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

tags: nostalgia

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#31

“The king considered all this very carefully;
he was not inclined to anger, like the Irish,
who make everything twice as bad as it is.”
― Heldris de Cornualles

tags: humor, humourous, ireland, irish, king, national-stereotypes, stereotypes

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#32

“O God, Thou who guidest the Saints and leadest them on Thy eternal way, who art everywhere with them and leavest them never, lead me on this way and direct my feet on the way of salvation and bring me to the place which I long for, that I may have intercourse with Thy Saints and serve Thee with them in holiness and praise Thee eternally.”
― A J and Albertus Schwengler: Wensinck, Legends of Eastern Saints Chiefly from Syriac Sources. Volume 1: Archelides; Volume 2: Hilaria. Bound with: Eusebii Pamphilii Historiae Ecclesiasticae Lib X, Ed A Schwegler.

tags: god, guidance, intercession, intercessory-prayer, prayer, sainthood, saints, salvation

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#34

“But one should have pity for the poor, and, for God’s sake, show them friendship, because they are flesh just as we are, our fellow women and men. And God himself commands us to do it and proclaims it in Scripture: “Blessed be he who does good for them and who will offer them alms!”
― Christine de Pizan, The Book of the Mutability of Fortune (Volume 52)

tags: almsgiving, god, poor, poverty, relief, religion, scripture, wealth

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#35

“No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high. Whigs and Tories, Liberal party and Labour party--for what do they battle except their own prestige?”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

tags: division, political-philosophy, politics, prestige, values, zeal, zealotry

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#36

“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: happiness

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#37

“But touching her corpse outwardly, they perceived it to be a woman's and, full of astonishment, they praised Christ, who kindleth the fire of His Love in all mankind, men and women, old men and youths and children.”
― A J and Albertus Schwengler: Wensinck, Legends of Eastern Saints Chiefly from Syriac Sources. Volume 1: Archelides; Volume 2: Hilaria. Bound with: Eusebii Pamphilii Historiae Ecclesiasticae Lib X, Ed A Schwegler.

tags: asceticism, biological-sex, christ, gender-equality, love, mankind-quotes, universalism

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#38

“Wealth takes no account of kindness, good sense, beauty, or strength, nor is she concerned about valor, goodness, or eminent qualities. To such people she is hardly a friend, and when she is, that situation usually does
not last long.”
― Christine de Pizan, The Book of the Mutability of Fortune (Volume 52)

tags: french-literature, honor, honour, kindness, medieval-literature, prosperity, prosperity-gospel, wealth

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#39

“Fortune, because of whom all good leaves us,
was thereupon born, and was complicit in the whole affair. She did this because of her fickleness. And I believe her to be the daughter of the devil because I do not find any writing or text—not prose, not verse—that says or proves that God, who makes all good, beneficial works out of nothing, ever formed or loved Fortune. So I believe that the devil made her, so that she would undo all good and put man in servitude, because there is no shame, damage, or misfortune that does not come to man because of Fortune (may all remember that!). And she does even greater harm to the best than to the worst, night and day. Her disruptive influence will not be short-lived; rather, her control will last until Judgment Day”
― Christine de Pizan, The Book of the Mutability of Fortune (Volume 52)

tags: disaster, fortune-favors-the-wicked, god, judgement-day, misfortune, the-fall, theology

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#40

“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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#41

“While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

tags: friendship

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#42

“If I may trust my own experience, the sight of adult misery and adult terror has an effect on children which is merely paralyzing and alienating.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

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#43

“In order to be disturbed less—since Mischance goes everywhere, and even though he may be ubiquitous—I have chosen as my sole joy (whatever joy someone else may have, this is mine): peace, voluntary solitude, and a secluded, solitary life.”
― Christine de Pizan, The Book of the Mutability of Fortune (Volume 52)

tags: alone, chaos, french-literature, medieval-literature, mischances, peace, secluded, solitude

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