50 Quotes About Archangel
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A dog looks up to you, a cat looks down on you, but a pig looks you straight in the eye.
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He felt more human with his boots on. A man can face the world with something on his feet.
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She didn't say goodbye. She set off up the street, dodging the pedestrians, walking fast. He watched her, waiting to see if she might look back. But of course she didn't. He knew she wouldn't. She wasn't the looking-back kind.
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In the concealed darkness of the bag her fingers began to work her rosary, clumsily at first but with increasing dexterity - Push. Click. Slide. Press -
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What she needed was someone who would take her for the whole night. Someone decent and respectable, with an apartment of his own. But how could you ever judge what men were really like? It was the young ones with the swaggering walks and the loud mouths who ended up bursting into tears and showing you pictures of their girlfriends. It was the bespectacled bankers and lawyers who liked to knock you around.
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... he tried to visualise her apartment, but he couldn't do it, he didn't know enough about her.
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History wasn't made without taking risks, that much he knew. So maybe sometimes you had to take risks to write it, too?
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... unfortunately, freedom alone is not enough, by far. If there is a shortage of bread, a shortage of butter and fats, a shortage of textiles, and if housing conditions are bad, freedom will not carry you very far. It is very difficult, comrades, to live on freedom alone.
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From the subjective perspective, he may seem cruel, even wicked. But the glory of the man is to be found in the objective perspective.
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