Alice Borchardt Quotes
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In this world our hopes for the best are so often disappointed.
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So fair a victor, how can I help but be conquered.
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Desire was only another weapon, like hunger, loneliness, and cold arrayed against him by his tormentors.
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Death alone gives meaning to life, and you will never fully live until you know you must die. And make your peace with that knowledge.
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There’s no sense crying over what can’t be changed” “that’s what people cry over, things they can’t change”
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Be free always, because of all things, freedom is best, though it is not easily won and must be chosen by those who will enjoy it.
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Humans, in their blindness, think intelligence has one path - theirs.
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I like a man willing to pay the price of his pleasures.
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One who forced another was beneath contempt. One who needed to was despised.
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Women are weak, easily swayed by passion, driven by desire, lust. He lit a fire in her body, a fire that still burned, even in his absence.
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If death be the last thing I do, why, I pray the gods and heroes of my people that I try to do it as well as I have done more pleasant things.
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Love is eternal. That is its terror and its final beauty. Love never ends. The joy may go out of it, and, in time, even the pain may end. But it lingers like a living thing and follows you every moment of your life.