Gene Wolfe Quotes

'Prince of parable, I desire to see those gardens of lasting delight which Allah-the Creator! the Ever Beneficent!-reserves for the faithful. How am I to do so if I tell lies?' 'By lying to Allah, I suppose.'

Gene Wolfe

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The universal practice of closing the eyes of the dead may be thought to have originated in the desire that he might be prevented from seeing his way.

Sabine Baring-Gould
- May
- Desire
- Eyes
Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.

Babasaheb
- Life
- Political
- Democracy
I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.

Francesca Annis
- Desire
- Religious
- Married
It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there. We need to revive on many levels an illustrious desire to get to know the world, to learn another language, to understand and create empathy with people that live a few kilometers away from us. It's never late to do this.

Gael Garcia Bernal
- People
- World
- Live
Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.

H. R. McMaster
- American
- War
- Wisdom
Desire is the very essence of man.

Baruch Spinoza
- Man
- Desire
- Very