Da Vinci Code Quotes

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Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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Everyone loves a conspiracy.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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Faith โ€• acceptance of which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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These books can't possibly compete with centuries of established history, especially when that history is endorsed by the ultimate bestseller of all time." Faukman's eyes went wide. "Don't tell me Harry Potter is actually about the Holy Grail." "I was referring to the Bible." Faukman cringed. "I knew that.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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What really matters is what you believe.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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Life is filled with secrets. You can't learn them all at once.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven. The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. The Bible did not fall magically from the clouds. Man created it as a historical record of tumultuous times, and it has evolved through countless translations, additions, and revisions. History has never had a definitive version of the book.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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Forgiveness is God's greatest gift
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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Can you keep secrets? Can you know a thing and never say it again?
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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Nothing in Christianity is original.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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Learning the truth has become my life's love.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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Today is today. But there are many tomorrows
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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My lawyers will fricassee your testicles for breakfast. And if you dare board my plane without a warrant, your spleen will follow.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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Please stop patronizing those who are reading a book - The Da Vinci Code, maybe- because they are enjoying it. For a start, none of us know what kind of an effort this represents for the individual reader. It could be his or her first full-length adult novel; it might be the book that finally reveals the purpose and joy of reading to someone who has hitherto been mystified by the attraction books exert on others. And anyway, reading for enjoyment is what we should all be doing. I don't mean we should all be reading chick lit or thrillers (although if that's what you want to read, it's fine by me, because here's something no one else will tell you: if you don't read the classics, or the novel that won this year's Booker Prize, then nothing bad will happen to you; more importantly,nothing good will happen to you if you do); I simply mean that turning pages should not be like walking through thick mud. The whole purpose of books is that we read them, and if you find you can't, it might not be your inadequacy that's to blame. "Good" books can be pretty awful sometimes.
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Nick Hornby (Housekeeping vs. the Dirt)
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Every faith in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faithโ€•acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. Every religion describes God through metaphor, allegory, and exaggeration, from the early Egyptians through modern Sunday school. Metaphors are a way to help our minds process the unprocessible. The problems arise when we begin to believe literally in our own metaphors. Should we wave a flag and tell the Buddhists that we have proof the Buddha did not come from a lotus blossom? Or that Jesus was not born of a literal virgin birth? Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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The Pentacle - The ancients envisioned their world in two halves - masculine and feminine. Their gods and goddesses worked to keep a balance of power. Yin and Yang. When male and female were balanced, there was harmony in the world. When they were unbalanced there was chaos.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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Do not start me on The Da Vinci Code ... a novel so bad that it gives bad novels a bad name." (Discussion at Woodruff Auditorium in Lawrence, KS; October 7, 2005.)
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Salman Rushdie
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Her eyes were olive greenโ€•incisive and clear.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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The Last Supper is supposed to be thirteen men. Who is this woman? "Everyone misses it, our preconceived notions of this scene are so powerful that our mind blocks out the incongruity and overrides our eyes.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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We fear what we do not understand...
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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Robert wondered if any of Harvard's revered Egyptologists had ever knocked on the door of a pyramid and expected an answer.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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At this gathering [Council of Niceau in 324 AD] many aspects of Christianity were debated and voted upon โ€• the date of Easter, the role of the bishops, the administration of sacraments, and, of course, the divinity of Jesus... until that moment in history, Jesus was viewed by His followers as a mortal prophet... a great and powerful man, but a man nonetheless. A mortal.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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ุงูˆู„ุฆูƒ ุงู„ุฐูŠู† ูŠู†ุดุฏูˆู† ุงู„ุญู‚ูŠู‚ุฉ ู‡ู… ุงูƒุซุฑ ู…ู† ุงุตุฏู‚ุงุกุŒ ุงู†ู‡ู… ุงุฎูˆุฉ.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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ุฃู† ุงู„ุฑุฌุงู„ ู‚ุฏ ูŠูุนู„ูˆู† ุฃูŠ ุดูŠุก ู„ุชุฌู†ุจ ู…ุง ูŠุฎุดูˆู†ู‡ ุฃูƒุซุฑ ู…ู…ุง ู‚ุฏ ูŠุจุฐู„ูˆู†ู‡ ู„ู„ุญุตูˆู„ ุนู„ู‰ ุดูŠุก ูŠุฑุบุจูˆู† ููŠู‡.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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Coincidence was a concept he did not entirely trust. As someone who had spent his life exploring the hidden interconnectivity of disparate emblems and ideologies, Langdon viewed the world as a web of profoundly intertwined histories and events. The connections may be invisible, he often preached to his symbology classes at Harvard, but they are always there, buried just beneath the surface.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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ุฅู† ุณูˆุก ุงู„ูู‡ู… ูŠูˆู„ู‘ุฏ ุงู„ุดูƒ.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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It is complete loose stool water. It is arse-gravy of the worst kind. - About "The Da Vinci Code
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Stephen Fry
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PHI is one H of a lot cooler than PI!
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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Napoleon once said, "What is history, but a fable agreed upon?" He smiled. "By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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ุงู„ุญูŠุงุฉ ู…ู„ูŠุฆุฉ ุจุงู„ุฃุณุฑุงุฑ ูˆู„ุง ูŠู…ูƒู†ูƒ ุฃู† ุชุนุฑููŠู‡ุง ูƒู„ู‡ุง ุฏูุนุฉ ูˆุงุญุฏุฉ.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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Steven Fry on The Da Vinci Code- "It is complete loose stoolwater. It is arse-gravy of the worst kind.
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Steven Fry
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In which year did a Harvard sculler last outrow an Oxford man at Henley?" Langdon had no idea, but he could imagine only one reason the question had been asked. "Surely such a travesty has never occurred.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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I would have thought you'd import an English staff?" "Good heavens, no! I would not wish a British chef on anyone except the French tax collectors.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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The greatest story ever told is, in fact, the greatest story ever sold
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Dan Brown (Connect Bible Studies: The Da Vinci Code)
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The measure of your faith is the measure of the pain you can endure.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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ุฅู† ุฑูŠุงุญ ุงู„ุชุบูŠูŠุฑ ู‚ุงุฏู…ุฉ ุจู„ุง ุดูƒ.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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So dark the con of man.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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Langdon turned to Sophie. "Who is that? What... happened?" Teabing hobbled over. "You were rescued by a knight brandishing an Excalibur made by Acme Orthopedic.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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There is your truth and there is my truth...as for the universal truth it does not exist.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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The Holy Grail โ€™neath ancient Roslin waits. The blade and chalice guarding oโ€™er Her gates. Adorned in mastersโ€™ loving art, She lies. She rests at last beneath the starry skies.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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It seemed Eveโ€™s bite from the apple of knowledge was a debt women were doomed to pay for eternity.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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ุชูˆู‚ุน ุงู„ู…ูˆุช ู‡ูˆ ุฏุงูุน ู‚ูˆูŠ.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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The quest for the Holy Grail is the quest to kneel before the bones of Mary Magdalene. A journey to pray at the feet of the outcast one.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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When a question has no correct answer; there is only one honest response.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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Actually, Da Vinci was in tune with the balance between male and female. He believed that a human soul could not be enlightened unless it had both male and female elements.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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Forgiveness is God's greatest gift.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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On average, everyone has read The Da Vinci Code. You have probably read it. Even if you have not read it, statistically you have.
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Andy Miller (The Year of Reading Dangerously)
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Symbologists often remarked that France-a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short-could not have chosen a more apt national emblem than a thousand-foot phallus.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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ู„ู‚ุฏ ูƒุงู† ุงู„ุฅู†ุณุงู† ู„ุง ุงู„ุฑุจ ู‡ูˆ ุงู„ุฐูŠ ุงุฎุชุฑุน ู…ูู‡ูˆู… ุงู„ุฎุทูŠุฆุฉ ุงู„ุฃุตู„ูŠุฉ ุญูŠุซ ุฃูƒู„ุช ุญูˆุงุก ู…ู† ุงู„ุชูุงุญุฉ ูˆุณุจุจุช ุทุฑุฏ ุงู„ุฌู†ุณ ุงู„ุจุดุฑูŠ ู…ู† ุงู„ุฌู†ุฉ ุฅู„ู‰ ุงู„ุฃุฑุถ . ูุฃุตุจุญุช ุงู„ู…ุฑุฃุฉ ุงู„ุชูŠ ูƒุงู†ุช ูŠูˆู…ุง ู…ุงู†ุญุฉ ุงู„ุญูŠุงุฉ , ุฃุตุจุญุช ุงู„ูŠูˆู… ุนุฏูˆ ุงู„ุฅู†ุณุงู†ูŠุฉ.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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You asked of me once, how high, high can beor if there was an exhibit.. I smiled and then whispered.. My thighs are the limitโ€ฆ
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Antares DaVinci (The Nikki DaVinci Code)
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Hate is never a far cry from loveโ€ฆ Sometimes I stumble the lines drunken.. Hollering your name..
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Antares DaVinci (The Nikki DaVinci Code)
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Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! โ€“ LEONARDO DA VINCI
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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When the ancients discovered โ€˜Phiโ€™, they were certain they had stumbled across Godโ€™s building block for the world.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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The chalice,โ€ he said, โ€œresembles a cup or vessel, and more important, it resembles the shape of a womanโ€™s womb. This symbol communicates femininity, womanhood, and fertility.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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Authors. Even the sane one are nuts. - Da Vinci Code
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Dan Brown
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The world of publishing is in crisis. It's no coincidence that the worst published writer in the world today is also one of the world's most successful writers... Dan Brown. Now Dan Brown is not a good writer, The Da Vinci Code is not literature. Dan Brown writes sentences like "The famous man looked at the red cup." ...and it's only to be hoped that Dan Brown never gets a job where he's required to break bad news. "Doctor is he going to be alright?" "The seventy five year old man died a painful death on the large green table... it was sad".
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Stewart Lee
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The Holy Grail 'neath ancient Roslin waits. The blade and chalice guarding o'er Her gates. Adorned in masters' loving art, She lies. She rests at last beneath the starry skies.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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Good heavens, no! I would not wish a British chef on anyone except the French tax collectors.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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Originally, Tarot had been devised as a secret means to pass along ideologies banned by the Church. Now, Tarot's mystical qualities were passed on by modern fortune-tellers.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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A little faith can do wonders, a little faith.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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Originally,โ€ Langdon said, โ€œChristianity honored the Jewish Sabbath of Saturday, but Constantine shifted it to coincide with the paganโ€™s veneration day of the sun.โ€ He paused, grinning. โ€œTo this day, most churchgoers attend services on Sunday morning with no idea that they are there on account of the pagan sun godโ€™s weekly tributeโ€”Sunday.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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The Rose has always been the premiere symbol of female sexuality. In primitive goddess cults, the five petals represented the five stations of female life - birth, menstruation, motherhood, menopause, and death. And in modern times, the flowering rose's ties to womanhood are considered more visual.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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Misunderstanding breeds distrust,
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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As we mathematicians like to say: PHI is one H of a lot cooler than PI!
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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history is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history booksโ€”books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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Venus and her pentacle became symbols of perfection, beauty, and the cyclic qualities of sexual love. As a tribute to the magic of Venus, the Greeks used her four-year cycle to organize their Olympiads.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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The male ego had spent two millennia running unchecked by its female counterpart. The Priory of Sion believed that it was this obliteration of the sacred feminine in modern life that had caused what the Hopi Native Americans called koyanisquatsi - "life out of balance" - an unstable situation marked by testosterone-fueled wars, a plethora of misogynistic societies, and a growing disrespect for Mother Earth.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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Moby-Dick is a long, grueling, convoluted graft. And yet, as soon as I completed it, once I could hold it at arm's length and admire its intricacy and design, I knew Moby-Dick was obviously, uncannily, a masterwork. It wormed into my subconsious; I dreamed about it for nights afterwards. Whereas when I finished The Da Vinci Code, which had taken little less than twelve hours from cover to cover, I chicked it aside and thought: wow - I really ought to read something good.
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Andy Miller (The Year of Reading Dangerously)
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In which year did a Harvard sculler last outrow an Oxford man at Henley?
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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Tuileries Gardensโ€”Parisโ€™s own version of Central Park.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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We are who we protect, what we stand up for.โ€ -- Sophie, via Dan Brown - The DaVinci Code
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Dan Brown
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I dok je Gete opisivao arhitekturu kao zamrznutu muziku, kriticari su ovu piramidu opisivali kao skripanje noktiju po skolskoj tabli
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Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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Sofi pogleda Langdona, ne znajuci da li se vratila kroz vreme ili je krocila u ludnicu
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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ูˆุณุทุน ุงู„ู†ูˆุฑ ุจุนุฏ ุงู„ุธู„ุงู….
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ุฏุงู† ุจุฑุงูˆู† (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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History is always written by the winners...By its very nature, its always a one-sided account
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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every faith in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faithโ€”acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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Robert? You wake me up and you charge me for it?
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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The world had gone mad, and in may parts of Europe, advertising your love of Jesus Christ was like painting a bull's-eye on the roof of your car.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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Fache will do what no one else dares.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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This icon is formally known as the blade, and it represents aggression and manhood. In fact, this exact phallus symbol is still used today on modern military uniforms to denote rank.โ€ โ€œIndeed.โ€ Teabing grinned. โ€œThe more penises you have, the higher your rank. Boys will be boys.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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Sophie, every faith in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faithโ€”acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. Every religion describes God through metaphor, allegory, and exaggeration, from the early Egyptians through modern Sunday school. Metaphors are a way to help our minds process the unprocessible. The problems arise when we begin to believe literally in our own metaphors.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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I belong to a culture that includes Proust, Henry James, Tchaikovsky, Cole Porter, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Alexander the Great, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Christopher Marlowe, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Tennessee Williams, Byron, E.M. Forster, Lorca, Auden, Francis Bacon, James Baldwin, Harry Stack Sullivan, John Maynard Keynes, Dag Hammarskjoldโ€ฆ These are not invisible men. Poor Bruce. Poor frightened Bruce. Once upon a time you wanted to be a soldier. Bruce, did you know that an openly gay Englishman was as responsible as any man for winning the Second World War? His name was Alan Turing and he cracked the Germans' Enigma code so the Allies knew in advance what the Nazis were going to do โ€” and when the war was over he committed suicide he was so hounded for being gay. Why don't they teach any of this in the schools? If they did, maybe he wouldn't have killed himself and maybe you wouldn't be so terrified of who you are. The only way we'll have real pride is when we demand recognition of a culture that isn't just sexual. It's all thereโ€”all through history we've been there; but we have to claim it, and identify who was in it, and articulate what's in our minds and hearts and all our creative contributions to this earth. And until we do that, and until we organize ourselves block by neighborhood by city by state into a united visible community that fights back, we're doomed. That's how I want to be defined: as one of the men who fought the war.
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Larry Kramer (The Normal Heart)
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He could taste the familiar tang of museum air - an arid, deionized essence that carried a faint hint of carbon - the product of industrial, coal-filter dehumidifiers that ran around the clock to counteract the corrosive carbon dioxide exhaled by visitors.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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Unfortunately, Da Vinci was a prankster who often amused himself by quietly gnawing at the hand that fed him. He incorporated in may of his Christian paintings hidden symbolism that was anything but Christian - tributes to his own beliefs and a subtle thumbing of his nose at the Church.
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Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code)
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Professor Langdon?โ€™ A male student at the back raised his hand, sounding hopeful. โ€˜Are you saying that instead of going to chapel, we should have more sex?โ€™ Langdon chuckled, not about to take the bait. From what heโ€™d heard about Harvard parties, these kids were having more than enough sex.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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the male climax was accompanied by a split second entirely devoid of thought. A brief mental vacuum. A moment of clarity during which God could be glimpsed. Meditation gurus achieved similar states of thoughtlessness without sex and often described Nirvana as a never-ending spiritual orgasm.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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until that moment in history, Jesus was viewed by His followers as a mortal prophet โ€ฆ a great and powerful man, but a man nonetheless. A mortal.โ€ โ€œNot the Son of God?โ€ โ€œRight,โ€ Teabing said. โ€œJesusโ€™ establishment as โ€˜the Son of Godโ€™ was officially proposed and voted on by the Council of Nicaea.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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The writing and telling of history is bedevilled by two human neuroses: horror at the desperate shapelessness and seeming lack of pattern in events, and regret for a lost golden age, a moment of happiness when all was well. Put these together and you have an urge to create elaborate patterns to make sense of things and to create a situation where the golden age is just waiting to spring to life again. This is the impulse which makes King Arthurโ€™s knights sleep under certain mountains, ready to bring deliverance, or creates the fascination with the Knights Templar and occult conspiracy which propelled The Da Vinci Code into best-seller lists.
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Diarmaid MacCulloch (A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years)
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Most tourists mistranslated Jardins des Tuileries as relating to the thousands of tulips that bloomed here, but Tuileries was actually a literal reference to something far less romantic. This park had once been an enormous, polluted excavation pit from which Parisian contractors mined clay to manufacture the cityโ€™s famous red roofing tilesโ€”or tuiles.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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Transmogrification,โ€ Langdon said. โ€œThe vestiges of pagan religion in Christian symbology are undeniable. Egyptian sun disks became the halos of Catholic saints. Pictograms of Isis nursing her miraculously conceived son Horus became the blueprint for our modern images of the Virgin Mary nursing Baby Jesus. And virtually all the elements of the Catholic ritualโ€”the miter, the altar, the doxology, and communion, the act of โ€œGod-eatingโ€โ€”were taken directly from earlier pagan mystery religions.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))
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[Dan] Brown states that five million women were killed by the Church as witches. In fact, modern research has shown that the witch hunts began in the sixteenth century in Europe and that between 30,000 and 50,000 men and women were burned to death for the crime of witchcraft. However, 90 per cent of those trials took place before secular tribunals in countries such as Germany and France where by the 1500s the Church had lost most of its influence in judicial matters. Indeed, it was precisely in countries like Spain and Italy where the Catholic Church still had influence that there were almost no witchcraft trials.
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Michael Coren (Why Catholics are Right)
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Venus and her pentacle became symbols of perfection, beauty, and the cyclic qualities of sexual love. As a tribute to the magic of Venus, the Greeks used her four-year cycle to organize their Olympiads. Nowadays, few people realized that the four-year schedule of modern Olympic Games still followed the cycles of Venus. Even fewer people knew that the five-pointed star had almost become the official Olympic seal but was modified at the last momentโ€”its five points exchanged for five intersecting rings to better reflect the gamesโ€™ spirit of inclusion and harmony.
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Dan Brown (The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2))