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The black rose by Thomas B. Costain


"How maddening it is to live in the darkness and yet to know that on the other side of the wall, is the light ye seek!"


"We were born as far apart as heaven and hell, and there must be as much difference in what we think and believe. It puzzles me as much as it does you that you are ready to talk to me as though we were equals."

"Strange as it may seem, God gave minds to common men and chamber-deacons."

"You praise me for my willingness to give up somethings I never possessed. "

"Even if the bars between us may never be rasied, permit me to stand better in her eyes."

A time to love and a time to die

By Erich Maria Remarque


"I'd like to go to sleep and wake up in another age. But things aren't made that easy. I have begun to think damned late. I'm not proud of it!"

"Once more the ghostly and intangible something was there that haunted so long and that could never be wholly grasped, that eluded and came back and stared and had a hundred ill-defined faces and no face at all."

"Logic and reason are poor companions for loss and pain."

" One should never go back anywhere"

"Probably everyone was a kind person for somebody. And for somebody else the opposite."

"The world is not divided into compartments and labels. And human beings even less."

"Sometimes when the silence screams you have to drown it out with the loudest thing you have."

"I have already had all the feears there are, I have no place left for new ones."

"Do you really have to be afraid before you know whether you love someone?"

"I am alive again, and I want to go on living."

"The past. There's nothing we can do with it. It simply weighs you down. Even what was good in it. We must begin again. The pst is bankrupt. We can't go back."

"It's better to wait, than have nothing to wait for."

"One doesn't have to rescue dreams. But faith! Dreams always reshape themselves."

The importance of being earnest

by Oscar Wilde


"...All good looks are snare. A snare every sensible man would like to be caught in."


"I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seems to us bitter trails are of ten blessings in disguise."

" I think that whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should be always quite candid."

"But even man of the noblest possible moral character are extremily susceptible to the influence of physical charms of others..."

"Well, one must e serious about something, if one wants to have any amusment in life."

"Hesitataion of any kind, is sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old."

"We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces."

"I never change, except in my affections."

All quiet on the western front

By Erich Maria Remarque


"We know only that in some strange and melancoly way we have become a waste land."

"We were still crammed full of vague ideas which gave to life...an ideal and almost romantic character."

".... the hour is like the room: flecked over with the lights and shadows of our feelings cast by a quiet fire."

"Terror can be endured so long as a man simply ducks; but it kills, if a man thinks about it."

Man and superman

By Bernard Shaw


"We live in an atmosfere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skin."

"The more things a man's ashamed of, the more respectable he is."

"The devilish side of a woman's facination: She makes you will your own destruction."

"Vitality in a woman is a blind fury of creation."

"It is the selfsacrificing women that sacrifice others most recklessly. Because they are unselfish, they are kind in little things. Because they have a purpose which is not their own purpose, but that of the whole universe, a man is nothing to them but an instrument of that purpose."

"They accuse us of treating them as a mere means to our pleasure; but how can so feeble and transient a folly as a man's selfish pleasure enslave a woman as the whole purpose of Nature embodied in a woman can enslave a man?"

"It is out of the deadliest struggles that we get the noblest characters."

"It happened just then that I got something that I wanted to keep all to myself instead of sharing it with you....
It was something you'd never let me call my own...
My soul."


"Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice. Yet all his civilization is founded on his cowerdice, on his abject tamness, which he calls his respectabilitiy."

"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire the other is to gain it."

Shadows in paradise

By Erih Maria Remarque


"You forget a lot of things when your life is at stake."

"Regret corrodes the soul; it's a luxury you can afford only in peaceful times."

"But was it possible to start over again from scratch?... And most frightening of all after all these years of fighting for survival, to learn once more how to live?"

"It's no good looking too deeply into our souls. We never know what we'll find."

"My head's too full of words. I've got to shake them out."

"He's still able to desire something he hasn't got. I guess that kind of desire is the one thing we never lose."

"A man isn't poor until he stops wanting anything."

"A man's got to encourage himself. No one else will."

Ana Karenina

By Leo Tolstoy



"That's just the aim of civilization- to make everything a source of enjoyment. Well if that's its aim I'd rather be a savage."

"...the future is yours and the present is mine, and the present- well, it's not all that it might be."

"...those who know only the nonplatonic love have no need to talk of tragedies. In such love there can be no tragedy."

"All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow."

"Everyone has a skeleton in his closet."

"Happinsess is the matter with me!"

"For happiness lies only within oneself."

"I have heard it said that women love men even for their vices...(but I hate him for his virtues)"

"What's so awful is that one can't tear up the past by its roots. One can't tear it out, but one can hide ones memorie of it."

"Where did I leave off? On the thought that I couldn't conceive a position in which life would not be misery, that we are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?"

A farewell to arms

By Ernest Hemingway



"... Feeling that we had come home, feeling no longer alone, waking in the night to find the other one there and not gone away; all other things were unreal. We slept when we were tired and if we woke the other one woke too so one was not alone. Often a man wishes to be alone, and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jelous of that in each-other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. It has only happened to me like that once...
I know the night is not the same as day: that all things are different, that the things of night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.
If people bring so much courage in the world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."


"Life isn't hard to manage when you've got nothing to lose."

"We never get anything. We are born with all we have and we never learn. We never get anything new. We all start complete."

I find very interesting and useful what is written above....

Nice job, as allways..

I thank you in the name of the writers who created all of the above.
I hope you will bring some of your favorite passages too. Any book is accepted in here ok.