I pity the woman who will love you when I am done. She will show up to your first date with a dustpan and broom, ready to pick up all the pieces I left you in. She will hear my name so often it will begin to dig holes in her. That is where doubt will grow. She will look at your neck, your thin hips, your mouth, wondering at the way I touched you. She will make you all the promises I did and some I never could. She will hear only the terrible stories. How I drank. How I lied. She will wonder (as I have) how someone as wonderful as you could love a monster like the woman who came before her. Still, she will compete with my ghost. She will understand why you do not look in the back of closets. Why you are afraid of what’s under the bed. She will know every corner of you is haunted by me.
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Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend i... FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER War is the province of danger. CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter. CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political inter... CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means. CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must be... CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means. CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past. CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fa... CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Politics is the womb in which war develops. CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ A conqueror is always a lover of peace. CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain. CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often ten... CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering. CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult. CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ To secure peace is to prepare for war. CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be consid... CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference. CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Freedom exists only with power. FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity. JOHANN VON GOETHE Before you can do something you must first be something. JOHANN VON GOETHE How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do th... JOHANN VON GOETHE The deed is everything, the glory is naught. JOHANN VON GOETHE Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnes... JOHANN VON GOETHE Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult t... JOHANN VON GOETHE When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self. JOHANN VON GOETHE Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself. FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking t... JOHANN VON GOETHE A useless life is an early death. JOHANN VON GOETHE A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach. FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and tha... OTTO VON BISMARCK CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table ... OTTO VON BISMARCK