What are your favorite quotes /lit/? I'll start: ''With
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What are your favorite quotes /lit/?
I'll start:
''With bare feet I trod upon thorns and flints''
-- Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi
''Now is thy mouth prevented, for death has closed it''
-- Anonymous
''He that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.''
-- Luke 22:36
"Man may bleed to death through the truth that he recognizes"
-- Nietzsche
"If you have not contributed to a catastrophe, you will vanish without a trace."
-- E. M. Cioran
Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
"To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his Gods."
-Macaulay, Lays of Ancient Rome
Once there were lions in China
-W.S. Merwin