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symbol Quotes

13 of the best book quotes about symbol
01
″‘The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. I am the mockingjay. The one that survived despite the Capitol’s plans. The symbol of the rebellion.‘”
02
“They’ll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.”
03
“Since no one can read, every candidate is designated by a symbol. Wisely these men choose to represent themselves with useful things - knife, bottle, matches, cooking pot.”
04
“More than any other person we remembered, this girl seemed to mean to us the country, the conditions, the whole adventure of our childhood.”
05
“In the center was the Stone itself—a stone table, split right down the center, and covered with what had once been writing of some kind: but ages of wind and rain and snow had almost worn them away in old times when the Stone Table had stood on the hill top, and the Mound had not yet been built above it.”
06
“You don’t need to wear a patch on your arm to have honor.”
07
″...A new life begins today for Harvey Dent. Dent, a former district attorney became obsessed with the number two when half his face was scarred by acid. Dent believe his disfiguration revealed a hidden, evil side to his nature. He adopted as his personal symbol a dollar coin...”
08
“By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable.”
09
“The Panopticon is a marvelous machine which, whatever use one may wish to put it to, produces homogeneous effects of power.”
10
“Martin the Warrior used the sword only for right and good. This is why it has become a symbol of power to Redwall. Knowledge is gained through wisdom, my friend. Use the sword wisely.”
11
″...death itself is not only a state, but a complex symbol, the significance of which will vary from one person to another and from one culture to another.”
12
“Believe this, Jerome. It matters that Sarah can see you.”
13
See! With this symbol, I undo it all, and make it as it had never been!”
Source: Chapter 18, Paragraph 13
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