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• He tunneled into stories where weak men changed into strong half-animals or used eye beams or magic hammers to power through steel or climb up the sides of skyscrapers. He was the Hulk when angry and Spidey the rest of the time. When he felt his heart hurt he turned into something stronger than a little boy, and he grew up this way. A heart that flashed from heart to stone, heart to stone. As I watched I thought of what Grandma Lynn liked to say when Lindsey and I rolled our eyes or grimaced behind her back. "Watch out what faces you make. You'll freeze that way.

  Alice Sebold

  Strong, Hurt, Grandma

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.154, Pan Macmillan

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• But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Way, Hypothesis, Barriers

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2013). “Vindication of the Rights of Women”, p.42, Lulu.com

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• What they do not comprehend is man's helplessness. I am weak, small, of no consequence to the universe. It does not notice me; I live on unseen. But why is that bad? Isn't it that way? Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small... and you will escape the jealousy of the great.

  Philip K. Dick

  Men, Unseen, Doe

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.

  Alexander Pope

  Failure, Pride, Men

  Alexander Pope (1808). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope. To which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.54

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• If you want God to bless you and use you greatly, you must be willing to walk with a limp the rest of your life, because God uses weak people.

  Rick Warren

  Life, Christian, People

  "The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?". Book by Rick Warren, books.google.ru. October 23, 2012.

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• Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dog, Strong, Feet

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.152, GENERAL PRESS

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• ...Haller's sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the times themselves, the neurosis of that generation to which Haller belongs, a sickness, it seems, that by no means attacks the weak and worthless only but, rather, precisely those who are strongest in spirit and richest in gifts.

  Hermann Hesse

  Mean, Soul, Generations

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.21, Macmillan

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• Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.

  Julian Barnes

  Strong, Fear, Women

  Julian Barnes (1984). “Flaubert's parrot”, Vintage

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• Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it; with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee a circumstantial detail is to prevent its happening. Trusting in this weak magic, he invented, so that they would not happen, the most gruesome details.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Reality, Magic, Details

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.89, New Directions Publishing

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• Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty .

  Leonard Cohen

  Tired, Forever, Looks

  Leonard Cohen “Atras Das Linhas Inimigas De Meu Amor”, 7Letras

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• In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Strong, Wicked, World

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.127, Mondial

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• ...but you are too much for them: the weak in courage are strong in cunning; and one by one, you have absorbed and have captured and dishonored, and have distilled of your deliverers the most ruinous of all poisons; people hear Beethoven in concert halls, or over a bridge game, or to relax; Cézannes are hung on walls, reproduced, in natural wood frames; van Gogh is the man who cut off his ear and whose yellows became recently popular in window decoration.

  James Agee

  Strong, Wall, Cutting

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• I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Believe, Flower, Weapons

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• The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong.

  Ian Caldwell

  Strong, Smart

  Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason (2005). “The rule of four”, Egully.com

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• Are you reading your Bible?" Ah, well...I was." And then you quit." You got it." Then, you can expect to be weak on one of your flanks, and that's precisely where the Enemy will come after you with a vengeance.

  Jan Karon

  Reading, Enemy, Quitting

  Jan Karon (2005). “At Home in Mitford”, Penguin Books

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• There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks sweet to the lazy and the stupid and the weak, and this only strengthens their infirmities and teaches nothing, cures nothing, nor does it let the heart soar.

  John Steinbeck

  Sweet, Stupid, Heart

  John Steinbeck (1952). “East of Eden, And, The Wayward Bus”

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• It’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesn’t kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you incredibly annoying.

  Rob Sheffield

  Pain, Loss, Opposites

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.190, Crown Archetype

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• In the slaughterhouse of love, they kill only the best, none of the weak or deformed. Don't run away from this dying. Whoever's not killed for love is dead meat.

  Rumi

  Running, Love Is, Dying

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.334, Penguin UK

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• The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.

  Joe Meno

  Past, Cities, Glitter

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• White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.

  Jack London

  Strong, Law, White

  Jack London (1992). “The Call of the Wild and White Fang”, p.147, Wordsworth Editions

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• Welcome to adulthood." Cob said. "Every child finds a day when the realize that adults can be weak and wrong just like everyone else. After that day, you are an adult. Like it or not.

  Peter V. Brett

  Children, Adults, Welcome

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• Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen to the other because our heart-threads had become weak and even breathing would have broken them.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Breathing, Earthquakes

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Goal, States

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• He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last weak breath.

  Franz Kafka

  Morning, Reflection, Light

  Franz Kafka, Stanley Corngold (1981). “The Metamorphosis”, Bantam Classics

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• That which yields is not always weak.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Yield, Kushiel's Dart, Flexibility

  Jacqueline Carey (2007). “Kushiel's Avatar”, p.467, Macmillan

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