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“You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.”
Source: Letters to Milena
“I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.”
Quiero hacer contigo lo que la primavera hace con los cerezos.
"Every Day You Play" (Juegas Todos las Días), XIV, p. 35.
Variant: I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.
Source: Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Canción Desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair) (1924)
“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
“Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.”
Machiavelli commented on the relative ease of gaining favor from friends and enemies in Chapter 20 of The Prince, quoted above. However, this particular wording comes from a line spoken by Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part II (1974), written by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola:
My father taught me many things here. He taught me in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
Misattributed
“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we’ll ever do.”
Variant: I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.
Source: Rising Strong
From an article in Sovetskoye Iskusstvo, November 5, 1934; translation from Laurel Fay Shostakovich: A Life (2000) p. 77.
Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Translation by Lionel Giles
Source: The Art of War, Chapter IV · Disposition of the Army
“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.”
Source: book Man's Search For Meaning
“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”
“Tolkien's dead. J. K. Rowling said no. Philip Pullman couldn't make it. Hi, I'm Terry Pratchett.”
t-shirt worn by Pratchett at conventions https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/culture/books/stephen-mcginty-sir-terry-pratchett-a-class-act-1-3718745 https://books.google.ca/books?id=n78kYbvUd_8C&pg=PA230&lpg=PA230&dq=%22tolkien%27s+dead%22+pratchett+shirt&source=bl&ots=uosL5-E7O9&sig=rMN8J7liwEBmaE92G4EWLunv2wk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjBmL6nr-DbAhUB6YMKHd9XALoQ6AEIoAEwGQ#v=onepage&q=%22tolkien's%20dead%22%20pratchett%20shirt&f=false
Misc
“Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.”
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
“Life is short, but the years are long.”
Part of the secret "call and response" codewords by which members of the long-lived Howard Families can identify others:
: Life is short.
But the years are long.
Not while the evil days come not.
Methuselah's Children (1958)
“We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy