Jacky
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Post by Jacky on Sept 3, 2005 15:43:24 GMT
Oscar Wilde?
"It was this unfathomable longing of the soul to wex itself -- to offer violence to its own nature -- to do wrong for the wrong's sake only -- that urged me to continue and finally to consummate the injury I had inflicted upon the offending brute."
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Post by vanya on Sept 5, 2005 9:51:29 GMT
Yes it was Wilde and yes yours is EA Poe. lol I love it! ;D
Okay try this:
Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.
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Post by Envin on Sept 9, 2005 14:32:41 GMT
LOL you like Lucretius, I'd say.
A fine lad! My word! A fine lad! ... His father lies on his deathbed and he amuses himself setting a policeman astride a bear! For shame, sir, for shame! It would be better if you went to the war!
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Dorlas
Skilled
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean
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Post by Dorlas on Sept 9, 2005 21:27:38 GMT
Tolstoy, War and Peace.
Yes I like Lucretius.
Okay, this is easy for you as well, can't think of a better one right now:
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
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Saeros
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Post by Saeros on Sept 16, 2005 7:56:23 GMT
Hey, nobody? This is so frikken easy, you should know that. Aaron, you at least!
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Post by Envin on Sept 17, 2005 14:40:27 GMT
Well shit, that's Plato. How's this one?
O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.
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Saeros
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Post by Saeros on Sept 17, 2005 14:48:01 GMT
Sun Tsu (can't spell)?
Here a classical:
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
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Jacky
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Post by Jacky on Sept 17, 2005 14:50:28 GMT
Ernest Hemingway, methinks
It makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.
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Post by Envin on Sept 19, 2005 13:04:15 GMT
Ah-ha! Jackers is catched! Trying to be tricksy, was she? Hemingway again!
E'en at the exit-door turning--charges superfluous calling back -- e'en as he descends the steps,
Something to eke out a minute additional--shadows of nightfall deepening,
Farewells, messages lessening--dimmer the forthgoer's visage and form,
Soon to be lost for aye in the darkness--loth, O so loth to depart!
Garrulous to the very last.
Kinda obvious, but I love this poem.
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Eowyn
Accomplished
A smile against the pure evil. No more despair!
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Post by Eowyn on Sept 28, 2005 3:01:15 GMT
Walt Whitman. Sorry, havent looked for this thread earlier. lol An easy one as an apologize for not posting so long.  Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. |
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Eowyn
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A smile against the pure evil. No more despair!
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Post by Eowyn on Oct 3, 2005 11:09:46 GMT
Comeon guys, thats easy! Everybody should know this one!
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