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#historical

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Schism in the soul, schism in the body social, will not be resolved by any scheme to return to the good old days (archaism), or by programs guaranteed to render an ideal projected future (futurism), or even by the most realistic, hardheaded work to weld together again the deteriorating elements [of civilization]. Only birth can conquer death―the birth, not of the old thing again, but of something new.


Arnold Joseph Toynbee


#inspirational #social-evolution #death

I been running up a bill with the devil ever since, and now he's come to collect on the debt.


Steven B. Weissman


#historical-romance #love

Women. You'll interpret anything as love. You see a man wearing an idiotic expression, and you assume he's been struck by Cupid's arrow when in reality, he's digesting a bad turnip.


Lisa Kleypas


#love #love

Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen.


Paul Ricoeur


#contexts #historical #legal #limited #philosophical

Don't ever let anyone tell you that things can't be changed, that things can't be done. The can and they will, if we are united in what we believe.


F.C. Malby


#literary-fiction #change

Tko se odviše nada, mnogo gubi. Manje nade donosi više!


Marija Jurić Zagorka


#historical-romance

When you want something, all the Universe conspires to helping you achieve it." -- The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho Just ask..


Victoria Aldridge Washuk


#historical-non-fiction #london-bombing #memoir #world-war- #historical-fiction

If Mary's blood is Spanish, at least it is royal. And at least she can walk straight and has control of her bowels.


Hilary Mantel


#historical-fiction

... those sectaries in Europe who are always expecting the end of the world, but who hope that, after the earth has been consumed by fire, they will be seated in glory: grilled a little, crisp at the edges and blackened in parts, but still, thanks be to God, alive for eternity, and seated at his right hand.


Hilary Mantel


#historical-fiction

All things in Fiji are paid for in blood.


Lance Morcan


#adventure #fiji #historical-fiction #historical-romance #romance






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