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• Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something perfect, they want to find a flaw.

  Gosho Aoyama

  Jealousy, Perfect, Want

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• Ronan's smile was sharp and hooked as one of the creature's claws. "'A sword is never a killer; it is a tool in the killer's hand'." "I can't believe Noah didn't stick around to help." "Sure you can. Never trust the dead.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Believe, Hands, Tools

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.127, Scholastic Inc.

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• His home was populated by things and creatures from Niall Lynch's dreams, and his mother was just another one of them

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mother, Dream, Home

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.144, Scholastic Inc.

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• sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.

  Franz Kafka

  Sleep, Men, Guilty

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Milena”, p.22, Schocken

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• What a grin he had, what ferocious eyes, what a creature he was. He had dreamt himself an entire life and death. Ronan said, "I want to go back." "Then take it," said his father. "You know how now." And Ronan did. Because Niall Lynch was a forest fire, a rising sea, a car crash, a closing curtain, a blistering symphony, a catalyst with planets inside him. And he had given all of that to his middle son.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Father, Eye, Son

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.329, Scholastic Inc.

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• When I looked at the painting I felt the same convergence on a single point: a flickering sun-struck instance that existed now and forever. Only occasionally did I notice the chain on the finch's ankle, or think what a cruel life for a little living creature - fluttering briefly, forced always to land in the same hopeless place.

  Donna Tartt

  Thinking, Land, Forever

  "The Goldfinch". Book by Donna Tartt, 2013.

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• A long-dead angel who thought to own me,” was his enigmatic answer, the silver in his eyes almost liquid. “I tore out his throat. After that, I ate his liver and his heart. The remaining internal organs weren’t as tasty so I gave them to his other creatures.” Elena’s hand tightened on the handle of the knife, conscious Naasir carried gleaming blades of his own in the sheaths strapped to his arms. “I wouldn’t think a vampire who killed an angel would be permitted to live.” A slow, feral smile. “I didn’t say I killed him.

  Nalini Singh

  Heart, Eye, Angel

  Nalini Singh (2013). “Archangel's Legion”, p.90, Penguin

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• There is a balance, a kind of standoff between the time continuum and the human entity, our frail bundle of soma and psyche. We eventually succumb to time, it's true, but time depends on us. We carry it in our muscles and genes, pass it on to the next set of time-factoring creatures, our brown-eyed daughters and jug-eared sons, or how would the world keep going. Never mind the time theorists, the cesium devices that measure the life and death of the smallest silvery trillionth of a second.... We were the only crucial clocks, our minds and bodies, way stations for the distribution of time.

  Don DeLillo

  Daughter, Time, Son

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.232, Pan Macmillan

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• Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Time, Space, Use

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• The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Effort, May

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World, Part II: The End of the Story”, p.115, Bantam

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• In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.

  Boethius

  Confidence, Ignorance, Men

  Boethius, Aeterna Press (2016). “Boethius Collection [2 Books]”, p.216, Aeterna Press

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• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.

  Mark Twain

  Courage, Ignorance, Brave

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 12, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.

  Andrew Solomon

  Sad, Depression, Despair

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.

  Zhuangzi

  Summer, Ocean, Ice

  Zhuangzi, Herbert Allen Giles (1909). “Teachings and Sayings of Chuang Tzu”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.

  Maimonides

  Fitness, Art, Health

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• If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Future, Men, Immortal

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.76, Harvard University Press

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• If God is what people say there can be no one in the universe so unhappy as He; for He sees unceasingly myriads of His creatures suffering unspeakable miseries--and besides this foresees how they are going to suffer during the remainder of their lives. One might as well say, "As unhappy as God."

  Mark Twain

  God, People, Suffering

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.153, Courier Corporation

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• From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God or self for the centre is opened to it.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Self, Atheism

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.110, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it is what I have steadfastly believed.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Happiness, Believe, Perfect

  Thomas Jefferson (1853). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private”, p.187

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• We are such docile creatures, normally, that it takes a virus to jolt us out of life's routine. A couple of days in a fever bed are, in a sense, health-giving; the change in body temperature, the change in pulse , and the change of scene have a restorative effect on the system equal to the hell they raise.

  E. B. White

  Couple, Health, Giving

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• Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.

  W. H. Auden

  Past, Men, History

  Dyer's Hand (1963) "D. H. Lawrence"

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• Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

  Tom Clancy

  Change, Hope, Men

  Tom Clancy (1995). “Debt of Honor”, p.579, Penguin

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• Like following life through creatures you dissect,
  You lose it in the moment you detect.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Moments, Following

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.180

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• Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep
  Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each,
  Even to the meanest; yea, a boon to all
  Where pity is, for pity makes the world
  Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.

  Edwin Arnold

  Life, Strong, Noble

  Sir Edwin Arnold, SBP Editors (2017). “The Light of Asia: The Great Renunciation”, p.108, Samaira Book Publishers

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• One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Hate, Men

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.421, Penguin

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