"Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; If it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere [...] One makes you strong, the other makes you weak."
- Don Juan
"I confess that I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil."
- Charles Dickens
"They would all agree, and the happy implication was that they alone, the four of them, were painfully alive in a dying culture."
- John Keats
"If it wasn't for the crimes that I was in
I wouldn't be the guy whose rhymes it is that I'm in."
- Jay-Z, "Blue Magic"
"What did I see?
Could I believe?
That what I saw that night was real and not just fantasy
Just what I saw
In my old dreams
Were they
Reflections of my warped mind staring back at me?"
- Iron Maiden, "Number of the Beast"
"A wonderful fact to reflect upon; that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other."
ReplyDelete- Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities.
I've never been much of a Olivier Twist fan. XP
You've interesting choices my friend, what spurred the quoteage?