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• Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long the mind is besieged on all sides, and in the end the mind has to give itself up.

  Marcel Proust

  Long, Giving, Mind

  Marcel Proust (2003). “In Search of Lost Time: Finding Time Again”, ePenguin

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• A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing;
  Our helper He, amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing:
  For still our ancient foe doth seek to work us woe;
  His craft and power are great, and, armed with cruel hate,
  On earth is not his equal.

  Martin Luther

  Hate, Crafts, Earth

  Martin Luther (1931). “Early Protestant Educators: The Educational Writings of Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Other Leaders of Protestant Thought”, Ams PressInc

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• Robert Neville looked out over the new people of the earth. He knew he did not belong to them; he knew that, like the vampires, he was anathema and black terror to be destroyed. And, abruptly, the concept came, amusing to him even in his pain. ... Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.

  Richard Matheson

  Pain, Circles, People

  Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett

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• "You cannot believe what you are saying." "Well, no. Hardly ever. But the philosopher is like the poet. The latter composes ideal letters for an ideal nymph, only to plumb with his words the depths of passion. The philosopher tests the coldness of his gaze, to see how far he can undermine the fortress of bigotry."

  Umberto Eco

  Believe, Passion, Nymphs

  "The Island of the Day Before". Book by Umberto Eco, 1994.

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• If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul, an abyss of every conceivable disaster or whatever else you will, you are still saying less than it deserves.

  St. Jerome

  Saying Less, Soul, Devil

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• There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.

  Joseph Stalin

  Storm, Bolsheviks

  "The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption" by Clive Foss, London: Quercus Publishing, (p. 131), 2006.

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• If thou canst but thither, There grows the flower of Peace, The Rose that cannot wither, Thy fortress and thy ease.

  Henry Vaughan

  Flower, Rose, Ease

  Henry Vaughan (1976). “The complete poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• Behold Vo Mimbre," Mandorallen proclaimed with pride, "queen of cities. Upon that rock the tide of Angarak crashed and recoiled and crashed again. Upon this field met they their ruin. The soul and pride of Arendia doth reside within that fortress and the power of the Dark One may not prevail against it." "We've been here before, Mendorallen," Mister Wolf said sourly.

  David Eddings

  Queens, Pride, Dark

  David Eddings (1982). “Queen of Sorcery”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• Fighting men are the city's fortress.

  Alcaeus

  Fighting, Men, Cities

  "Fragments". Book by Alcaeus (Fragment XXII),

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• As we lay huddled together under the tent, which leaked considerably about the sides, with our baggage at our feet, we listened to some of the grandest thunder which I ever heard, -rapid peals, round and plump, bang, bang, bang in succession, like artillery from some fortress in the sky; and the lightning was proportionally brilliant. The Indian said, 'It must be good powder.' All for the benefit of the moose and us, echoing far over the concealed lakes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sky, Feet, Lakes

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• It was a ludicrous, insane situation in which modern fighting men, possessed all of the highly destructive engines of war, were ordered to attack a medieval fortress using no weapons that would destroy or harm it.

  Dale Dye

  War, Marine, Fighting

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• There are a score of great religions in the world, each with scores or hundreds of sects, each with its priestly orders, its complicated creed and ritual, its heavens and hells. Each has its thousands or millions or hundreds of millions of true believers each damns all the others with more or less heartiness - and each is a mighty fortress of graft.

  Upton Sinclair

  Order, Heaven, Religion

  Upton Sinclair (2005). “The Profits of Religion”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parley.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Long, Dating, Romance

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.17, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• In horror of death, I took to the mountains - again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the hour of death, capturing the fortress of the deathless unending nature of mind. Now all fear of death is over and done.

  Milarepa

  Buddhist, Mind, Mountain

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• In the City of God there will be a great thunder,
  Two brothers torn apart by Chaos,
  while the fortress endures,
  the great leader will succumb,
  The third big war will begin when the big city is burning

  Nostradamus

  Brother, War, Cities

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• What's this about?" "Finally. Interest," was the only response. "If this is one of your tricks..." Like the time Torin had ordered hundreds of blow-up dolls and placed them throughout the fortress, all because Paris had foolishly complained about the lack of female companionship in town. The plastic "ladies" had stared our from every corner, their wide eyes and let-me-suck-you mouths taunting everyone who passed them. Things like that happened when Torin was bored.

  Gena Showalter

  Eye, Blow, Paris

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Night”, p.18, HQN Books

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• And if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate.

  Washington Irving

  Heart, Unhappy, Abandoned

  Washington Irving (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Washington Irving (Illustrated)”, p.75, Delphi Classics

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• a fortress against ideas and against the
  Shuddering insidious shock of the theory-vendors
  The little sardine men crammed in a monster toy
  Who tilt their aggregate beast against our crumbling Troy.

  Louis MacNeice

  Men, Ideas, Crumbling

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.44, Faber & Faber

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• If there is anything so romantic as that castle-palace-fortress of Monaco I have not seen it. If there is anything more deliciousthan the lovely terraces and villas of Monte Carlo I do not wish to see them. There is nothing beyond the semi-tropical vegetation, the projecting promontories into the Mediterranean, the all-embracing sweep of the ocean, the olive groves, and the enchanting climate! One gets tired of the word beautiful.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Beautiful, Ocean, Tired

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• I think the number one public-relations blunder Osama has made is that he lives in a cave-fortress and if there's one thing we've learned from it's that you can't trust a guy who lives in a cave-fortress -- Lex Luther, Captain Nemo, Dr. Evil. I'm telling you the list goes on.

  David Letterman

  Thinking, Numbers, Evil

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• I love you Lord, you are my strength. The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my savior. And my God is my rock in whom I find protection. He is my shield, the strength of my salvation, and my stronghold. I will call on the Lord who is worthy of praise. I praise the Lord, my God, my best friend, for giving me the ability, the desire, the love and the guidance that brought me here today. Without you, I would be nothing.

  Gary Carter

  Love You, Rocks, Giving

  Gary Carter, Phil Pepe (2008). “Still a Kid at Heart: My Life in Baseball and Beyond”, p.214, Triumph Books

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• Where are the leaders?' Sapphique asked. 'In the fortresses,' the swan replied. 'And the poets?' 'Lost in dreams of other worlds.' 'And the craftsmen?' 'Forging machines to challenge the darkness.' 'And the Wise, who made the world?' The swan lowered its black neck sadly. 'Dwindled to crones and sorcerers in towers.

  Catherine Fisher

  Wise, Dream, Swans

  Catherine Fisher (2011). “Incarceron”, p.205, Penguin

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• Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.

  George D. Prentice

  Habit, Proportion, Modest

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• Tiny as a sparrow, fierce as an eagle, Lisbeth Salander is one of the great Scandinavian avengers of our time, an angry bird catapulting into the fortresses of power and wiping smiles off the faces of smug, predatory pigs.

  A. O. Scott

  Pigs, Eagles, Bird

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• As we come to know, accept, and explore our feelings, they will become sanctuaries and fortresses and spawning grounds for the most radical and daring of ideas-the house of difference so necessary to change and the conceptualization of any meaningful action.

  Audre Lorde

  Meaningful, Ideas, Differences

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