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- "cogito, ergo sum." — rené descartes c. 1637
- "the world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." / "the universe is a sort of book, whose first page one has read when one has seen only one’s own country." — fougeret de monbron le cosmopolite c. 1753
- "yes. all men must die, but we are not men." — daenerys targaryen, game of thrones tv.
- "... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge." — tyrion lannister, a game of thrones c. 1996
- "woman?” she chuckled. "is that meant to insult me?" — daenerys targaryen, a storm of swords c. 2000
- "a cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things." a game of thrones c. 1996
- "opening your eyes is all that is needing. the heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true. look with your eyes. hear with your ears. taste with your mouth. smell with your nose. feel with your skin. then comes the thinking, afterward, and in that way knowing the truth." — syrio forel to arya stark, a game of thrones c. 1996
- "she had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear." of catelyn stark, george r.r. martin, a game of thrones c. 1996
- "my skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel." — sansa stark, a storm of swords c. 2000
- "is it so far from madness to wisdom?" — daenerys targaryen, a game of thrones c. 1996
- "words are wind, but wind can fan a fire." — king jaehaerys, fire and blood c. 2018
- "those who do not know the danger of wielding power will, before long, be ruled by it... never forget that." — lanayru, the legend of zelda: twilight princess
- "a sword wields no strength unless the hand that holds it has courage" - the hero's shade, the legend of zelda: twilight princess
- "men would sooner put the realm to the torch than see a woman ascend the iron throne." — princess rhaenys targaryen to young rhaenyra, house of the dragon
- "when you play the game of thrones, you win or you die." — cersei lannister, a game of thrones c. 1996
- "we all need to be mocked from time to time, lord mormont, lest we start to take ourselves too seriously." — tyrion lannister, a game of thrones c. 1996
- "the greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them" — tywin lannister, a storm of swords c. 2000
- "a reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. the man who never reads lives only once." — jojen reed to bran stark, a dance with dragons c. 2011
- "he was putting all these dumb, show-offy ripples in the high notes, and a lot of other very tricky stuff that gives me a pain in the ass. you should've heard the crowd, though, when he was finished. you would've puked. they went mad. they were exactly the same morons that laugh like hyenas in the movies at stuff that isn't funny. i swear to god, if i were a piano player or an actor or something and all those dopes thought i was terrific, i'd hate it. I wouldn't even want them to clap for me. people always clap for the wrong things. if i were a piano player, i'd play it in the goddam closet." — j.d. salinger, the catcher in the rye
- "the fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." — touchstone, as you like it
- “all the world's a stage, / and all the men and women merely players; / they have their exits and their entrances; / and one man in his time plays many parts, / his acts being seven ages.” jacques, as you like it
- "though she be but little, she is fierce!" helena, a midsummer night's dream
- "to be, or not to be: that is the question: / whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer / the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, / or to take arms against a sea of troubles, / and by opposing end them? to die: to sleep; / no more; and by a sleep to say we end / the heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks / that flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation / devoutly to be wish'd. to die, to sleep; / to sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; / for in that sleep of death what dreams may come / when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, / must give us pause: there's the respect / that makes calamity of so long life; ..." — hamlet, hamlet
- "et tu, brute?" — julius caesar, julius caesar
- "what's in a name? that which we call a rose / by any other name would smell as sweet." — romeo, romeo and juliet
- "wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day: / it was the nightingale, and not the lark, / that pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear; / nightly she sings on yon pomegranate-tree: / believe me, love, it was the nightingale..." — juliet, romeo and juliet
- "you men, you beasts, / that quench the fire of your pernicious rage / with purple fountains issuing from your veins..." — the prince, romeo and juliet
- “did i request thee, maker, from my clay / to mould me man? did i solicit thee / from darkness to promote me?" adam, paradise lost
- "so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." — fitzgerald, the great gatsby
- "and i like large parties. they’re so intimate. at small parties there isn’t any privacy." — jordan, fitzgerald, the great gatsby
- "life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall." — fitzgerald, the great gatsby
- "but if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought." ― george orwell, 1984
- "can’t repeat the past? ... why of course you can!" — jay gatsby, fitzgerald, the great gatsby
- "in his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars." — fitzgerald, the great gatsby
- "there are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will." — charlotte perkins gilman, the yellow wallpaper
- "siempre imaginé que el paraíso sería algún tipo de biblioteca.” — jorge luis borges
- "nolite te bastardes carborundorum." ― margaret atwood, the handmaid’s tale
- "the world is merciless, and it's also very beautiful." ― hajime isayama, attack on titan
- "memento mori."
- "reserve your chaos!" — tissaia de vries, the witcher tv. c. 2019
- "but it refused." — toby fox, undertale c. 2015
- "while it's true that i am hylia reborn, i'm still my father's daughter and your friend...i'm still your zelda." — zelda, the legend of zelda: skyward sword
- "that's how the past works though, isn't it? it's always a different story than what you really lived." — manuela, fire emblem: three houses
- "if we catch kira, he is evil. if he wins and rules the world, then he is justice." — light yagami, death note
- "the child is the father of the man" — william wordsworth, "my heart leaps up"
- "how *not* to lose? it is impossible not to. the world is balanced on the edge of a knife. it’s a game of frayed nerves. you’re pushed on by numbers and punitive measures: pain, rejection, and unpaid bills. you can either play or you can crawl under a boat and waste away — turn into salt or a flock of seagulls. your enemies would *love* that. or you can fight. the only way to load the dice is to keep on fighting." — volition, disco elysium
- "YOU CAN KEEP ME ON THIS EARTH. BE VIGILANT. I LOVE YOU." — shivers, LA REVACHOLIÈRE, disco elysium
- "subdue the regret. dust yourself off, proceed. you'll get it in the next life, where you don't make mistakes. do what you can with this one, while you're alive. — volition, disco elysium
- "DRAMA: this may have been a *grave* mistake, sire. / VOLITION: maybe. maybe not. mercy is rarely a *complete* mistake." — disco elysium
- "VOLITION: you can do it. it's nothing. do it for the city. go. / SHIVERS: do it for the wind. / LOGIC: do it for the picture puzzle. put it all together. solve the world. one conversation at a time." — disco elysium
- "JOYCE MESSIER: this world is enough. / CONCEPTUALIZATION: it *must* be. this is the greatest and kindest arrangement the atoms had in them." — disco elysium
- "in the dark times, should the stars also go out?"— steban, the student communist, disco elysium
- "there *needs* to be a club for anodic music in there. NEEDS TO! everyone hates each other. everybody hates it here, it's all just drugs and we're slaves and i *can't*... we are running out of time! ... i promise this will be a win! We won't cook speed in there, we'll do it clean, we'll do it true! we'll do it sober and *real* and beautiful. this will be a victory for the light! — egg head, disco elysium
- "still, there's something inherently violent even about dice rolls. it's like every time you cast a die, something disappears. some alternative ending, or an entirely different world..." — novelty dicemaker, disco elysium
- "i saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. from the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. one fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was ee gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was europe and africa and south america, and another fig was constantin and socrates and attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs i couldn't quite make out. i saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because i couldn't make up my mind which of the figs i would choose. i wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as i sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet." — sylvia plath, the bell jar
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