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Isna a good quote if you have to pothole every world to explain


-> ''But why! I just wanted to understand this world's knowledge! I wanted to experience it! Free! I just wanted to be free! Free to know...''
-->-- '''[[spoiler:Father]]''', ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist: Brotherhood''

->"[[BenevolentAI I only]] [[MoralityChip want to]] [[TheFettered be free]]."
-->--'''[[spoiler:Dragon]]''', ''Literature/{{Worm}}''

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-> ''But why! I just wanted to understand this world's knowledge! I wanted to experience it! Free! I just wanted to be free! Free to know...->''Quitters never win, winners never quit, but those who never win'' and ''never quit are fuckin' idiots.''
-->-- '''[[spoiler:Father]]''', ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist: Brotherhood''

->"[[BenevolentAI I only]] [[MoralityChip want to]] [[TheFettered be free]]."
-->--'''[[spoiler:Dragon]]''', ''Literature/{{Worm}}''
'''Lily''', ''VideoGame/TheBleachers''



-->-- The opening Narration of ''Literature/FateZero'', about '''Kiritsugu Emiya'''

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-->-- The opening Narration Opening narration of ''Literature/FateZero'', about '''Kiritsugu Emiya'''



-->-- '''Achilles''' on '''Atalanta ''' and her dream, ''Literature/FateApocrypha''

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-->-- '''Achilles''' on '''Atalanta ''' and her dream, ''', ''Literature/FateApocrypha''
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-->-- The opening Narration of ''LightNovel/FateZero'', about '''Kiritsugu Emiya'''

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-->-- The opening Narration of ''LightNovel/FateZero'', ''Literature/FateZero'', about '''Kiritsugu Emiya'''



-->-- '''Achilles''' on '''Atalanta ''' and her dream, ''LightNovel/FateApocrypha''

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-->-- '''Achilles''' on '''Atalanta ''' and her dream, ''LightNovel/FateApocrypha''
''Literature/FateApocrypha''
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->''Fifteen years…sweating in a living Hell on a false charge. Fifteen years dreaming I might come home to a wife and child.''
-->-- '''Sweeney Todd''', ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet''
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-> ''Young Lothric was meant to be a champion, and was expected to wield this platinum sword, but some things will remain distant dreams forever.''
-->-- Item description of '''Lothric's Holy Sword''', the weapon formed from the soul of the cursed and frail Prince Lothric, ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII''
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-> ''In the foregoing story, I tried to narrate the process of a defeat.'' [[ImpossibleTask I first thought of that archbishop of Canterbury who took it upon himself to prove there is a God; then, of the alchemists who sought the philosopher's stone; then, of the vain trisectors of the angle and squarers of the circle]]. ''Later I reflected that'' [[TragicDream it would be more poetic to tell the case of a man who sets himself a goal which is not forbidden to others, but is to him]]. ''I remembered Averroes who'', [[CultureClash closed within the orb of Islam]], [[PopCultureIsolation could never know the meaning of the terms tragedy and comedy]]. ''I related his case; as I went along, I felt what that god mentioned by Burton must have felt when he tried to create a bull and created a buffalo instead.'' [[PostModernism I felt that the work was mocking me. I felt that Averroes, wanting to imagine what a drama is without ever having suspected what a theater is, was no more absurd than I, wanting to imagine Averroes with no other sources than a few fragments from Renan, Lane and Asin Palacios]].

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-> ''In the foregoing story, I tried to narrate the process of a defeat.'' [[ImpossibleTask I first thought of that archbishop of Canterbury who took it upon himself to prove there is a God; then, of the alchemists who sought the philosopher's stone; then, of the vain trisectors of the angle and squarers of the circle]]. ''Later Later I reflected that'' that [[TragicDream it would be more poetic to tell the case of a man who sets himself a goal which is not forbidden to others, but is to him]]. ''I I remembered Averroes who'', who, [[CultureClash closed within the orb of Islam]], [[PopCultureIsolation could never know the meaning of the terms tragedy and comedy]]. ''I I related his case; as I went along, I felt what that god mentioned by Burton must have felt when he tried to create a bull and created a buffalo instead.'' instead. [[PostModernism I felt that the work was mocking me. I felt that Averroes, wanting to imagine what a drama is without ever having suspected what a theater is, was no more absurd than I, wanting to imagine Averroes with no other sources than a few fragments from Renan, Lane and Asin Palacios]].''
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->''" Bet ya thought you were all going to grow old together, sitting around the table at Sunday dinner in the happily ever after. No... doesn't work like that, Rick. '''Not anymore.'''"''
-->-- '''Negan''', ''Series/TheWalkingDead

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->''" Bet ->''"Bet ya thought you were all going to grow old together, sitting around the table at Sunday dinner in the happily ever after. No... doesn't work like that, Rick. '''Not anymore.'''"''
-->-- '''Negan''', ''Series/TheWalkingDead''Series/TheWalkingDead''
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->''" Bet ya thought you were all going to grow old together, sitting around the table at Sunday dinner in the happily ever after. No... doesn't work like that, Rick. '''Not anymore.'''"''
-->-- '''Negan''', ''Series/TheWalkingDead
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->''I have squandered the splendid years that the Lord God gave to my youth''
->''In attempting impossible things, deeming them alone worth the toil. Was it folly or grace? Not men shall judge me, but God.''
->''I have squandered the splendid years:''
->''Lord, if I had the years I would squander them over again,''
->''Aye, fling them from me!''
->''For this I have heard in my heart, that a man shall scatter, not hoard,''
->''Shall do the deed of to-day, nor take thought of to-morrow's teen,''
->''Shall not bargain or huxter with God; or was it a jest of Christ's''
->''And is this my sin before men, to have taken Him at His word?''

->''The lawyers have sat in council, the men with the keen, long faces,''
->''And said, `This man is a fool,' and others have said, `He blasphemeth;''
->''And the wise have pitied the fool that hath striven to give a life''
->''In the world of time and space among the bulks of actual things,''
->''To a dream that was dreamed in the heart, and that only the heart could hold.''
-->--'''Patrick Pearse''', "The Fool"
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-> ''Missy, both you and your were truly beautiful. However, you knew more than anyone that your dream would never come to fruition, but you continued to chase it. That's why you...''

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-> ''Missy, both you and your dream were truly beautiful. However, you knew more than anyone that your dream would never come to fruition, but you continued to chase it. That's why you...''
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-> ''Missy, both you and your were truly beautiful. However, you knew more than anyone that your dream would never come to fruition, but you continued to chase it. That's why you...''
-->-- '''Achilles''' on '''Atalanta ''' and her dream, ''LightNovel/FateApocrypha''
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-->-- ''Fantine'', LesMiserables

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-->-- ''Fantine'', LesMiserables
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-->-- '''The opening Narration of LightNovel/FateZero, about Kiritsugu Emiya'''

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-->-- '''The The opening Narration of LightNovel/FateZero, ''LightNovel/FateZero'', about Kiritsugu '''Kiritsugu Emiya'''

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