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Amores Perros and Once Were Warriors had a tremendous visceral quality that really influenced me.
Brendan Fletcher
We are all warriors. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on the planet and to understand, if only within our own hearts, who we are and what we believe in.
Steven Pressfield
If one man kills a hundred men, and another man masters himself, the second man is the much greater warrior.
You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour.
Miyamoto Musashi
Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
Stendhal
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he
Stendhal
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
Stendhal
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
Stendhal
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
Stendhal
