A Legend Novel Quotes & Sayings

As Narrative (Novel, Passion), love is a story which is accomplished, in the sacred sense of the word: it is a program which must be completed. For me, on the contrary, this story has already taken place; for what is event is exclusively the delight of which I have been the object and whose aftereffects I repeat (and fail to achieve). Enamoration is a drama, if we restore to this word the archaic meaning Nietzsche gives it: "Ancient drama envisioned great declamatory scenes, which excluded action (action took place before or behind the stage)." Amorous seduction (a pure hypnotic moment) takes place before discourse and behind the proscenium of consciousness: the amorous "event" is of a hieratic order: it is my own local legend, my little sacred history that I declaim to myself, and this declamation of a fait accompli (frozen, embalmed, removed from any praxis) is the lover's discourse. — Roland Barthes

The higher the mountain on which you stand, the less change in the prospect from year to year, from age to age. Above a certain height there is no change. — Henry David Thoreau

Say as you think and speak it from your souls. — William Shakespeare

Stripe makes it easy for anyone, be it an individual or a small business or a large business, to accept credit card payments on the Internet. We want to give control to the user or the business to define what the experience looks like. We work on a website or a mobile app, or whatever between that. — Patrick Collison

Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing. — Euripides

Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness. — Baruch Spinoza

Until the day we meet again I will hold you in my heart and protect you there, grieving what we never had, cherishing what we did. — Marie Lu

Homecoming's stupid. And it is. Buch of kids looking for excuses to grope eachother all night. — Barry Lyga

Even leaving aside government policy, whole industries are already making expensive changes around the perceived need to 'go green.' Al Gore and countless other prophets of global catastrophe are making megamillions pushing these expensive solutions. Schoolchildren around the globe are being frightened by tales of impending calamity. — Bradley A. Smith