Steven Erikson Quotes
The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.
Quotes to Explore
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Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.
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The essence of a person is not the clothing she wears or the things he does. People who love them do not stop loving them when they change clothing or do other things. Your essence is not even your history, culture, race, or what you think and do. It is your soul.
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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
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Grief causes suffering and disease.
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My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
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Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
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No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'.
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The soul of Man must quicken to creation.
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And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floorShall be lifted - nevermore!
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The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other; and with them this conviction does not spring from that barren traditionary faith which seems to vegetate in the soul rather than to live.
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The sophist is concerned with wisdom, not for its own sake, not because he hates the lie in the soul more than anything else, but for the sake of the honor or the prestige that attends wisdom.
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Body and soul are not two different things, but only two different ways of perceiving the same thing. Similarly, physics and psychology are only different attempts to link our experiences together by way of systematic thought.
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There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.
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I've not met a soul who wants to see The Wanted over One Direction. The thirst for those boys is insane.
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I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness, the beauty, the theatricality, the poetry and soul of the wire. And you cannot be a wire-walker without mingling those two ways of seeing life.
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I spent ages learning to take photos, which was a lot of fun, and I think it really helped readers get excited about the recipes.
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When e-commerce companies build scale, cost comes down. Companies that can handle scale and reduce costs over time will win. Margins will come from reducing costs over time and not by increasing prices. Technology is the answer at large scale.
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I plan to send my liver somewhere in France, to protest foie gras (liver pate) … I plan to have handbags made from my skin … and an umbrella stand made from my seat.
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The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said he'd like to help, but he's pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army.
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A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.
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The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.
