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1 " And being an obsessive man he did things normal men did not! Like he knew the number of strands of hair that her eye-lashes had! "
2 " War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. " War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows." He's looking at me now. " And otherwise normal men become monsters, too. "
3 " War is a monster. War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows. And otherwise normal men become monsters, too. "
― Patrick Ness , The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)
4 " They met in the library searching for old Sidney Sheldon books. Her silence and calmness drew her to him. His brooding nature drew him to her. Conversations flowed like the waters of a water-fall! And every time they met their conversations sparked flames like the forest caught in a wild fire!There was something in her eyes! Her eyes were expressive and from the first day that they met, they spoke to him a million things! He could know which night she had cried, which night she had slept peacefully and which night of hers had been spent in complete sleeplessness. He began reading her eyes more deeply and passionately than the books in the library...And being an obsessive man, he did things normal men did not! Like he knew the number of strands of hair that her eye-lashes had! "
― Avijeet Das
5 " This capacity for objectivity and absoluteness amounts to an existential — and “preventive” — refutation of the ideologies of doubt: if a man is able to doubt, it is because there is certainty; likewise the very notion of illusion proves that man has access to reality. It follows that there are necessarily some men who know reality and who therefore have certainty; and the great spokesmen of this knowledge and certainty are necessarily the best of men. For if truth were on the side of doubt, the individual who doubted would be superior not only to these spokesmen, who have not doubted, but also to the majority of normal men across the millennia of human existence. If doubt conformed to the real, human intelligence would be deprived of its sufficient reason, and man would be less than an animal, for the intelligence of animals does not doubt the reality to which it is proportioned. "
― Frithjof Schuon , Logic and Transcendence