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    Virgil
    “Fléctere si néqueo súperos Acheronta movebo - If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.”
    ― Virgil, The Aeneid
    tags: aeneid, book-vii, line-312
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    Virgil
    “The gates of hell are open night and day;
    Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:
    But to return, and view the cheerful skies,
    In this the task and mighty labor lies.”
    ― Virgil, The Aeneid
    tags: hell, poetry
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    Virgil
    “Ah, merciless Love, is there any length to which you cannot force the human heart to go?”
    ― Virgil, The Aeneid
    tags: classical-texts, dido, heartbreak, love, paintings, the-aeneid
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    Virgil
    “And as he spoke he wept.
    Three times he tried to reach arms round that neck.
    Three times the form, reached for in vain, escaped
    Like a breeze between his hands, a dream on wings.”
    ― Virgil, The Aeneid
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    Virgil
    “The seeds of life - fiery is their force, divine their birth, but they are weighed down by the bodies' ills or dulled by limbs and flesh that's born for death. That is the source of all men's fears and longings, joys and sorrows, nor can they see the heaven's light, shut up in the body's tomb, a prison dark and deep.”
    ― Virgil, The Aeneid
    tags: mortality
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    Virgil
    “I dragged on my ruined life in darkness and grief, wrathful in my heart...”
    ― Virgil, The Aeneid
    tags: greek-mythology, grief, the-aeneid, virgil
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Rules and responsibilities: these are the ties that bind us. We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves. I will do what I have to do. And I will do what I must.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Book of Dreams
    tags: responsibilities, rules
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    Neil Gaiman
    “We were never lovers, and we never will be, now. I do not regret that, however. I regret the conversations we never had, the time we did not spend together. I regret that I never told him that he made me happy, when I was in his company. The world was the better for his being in it. These things alone do I now regret: things left unsaid. And he is gone, and I am old.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 10: The Wake
    tags: regret
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    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “I have drunken deep of joy,
    And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
    ― Percy Bysshe Shelley
    tags: inspirational-attitude, joy, poetry
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    John Milton
    “Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
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    John Milton
    “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: inspirational, religion
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    David Mitchell
    “A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
    tags: books, love, reading
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    David Mitchell
    “Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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    David Mitchell
    “The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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    David Mitchell
    “Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
    tags: books, escape
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    David Mitchell
    “You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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    David Mitchell
    “The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
    tags: comedy-timothy-cavendish, humor
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  • #18
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
    tags: identity, opinions
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    Oscar Wilde
    “A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: friends-betrayal
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: saint-sinner
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading, writing
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To define is to limit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: dandy, lord-henry-wotton, wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: emotions, mercy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: temptation
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: reading
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  • #29
    Robert W. Service
    “Now a promise made is a debt unpaid,
    and the trail has its own stern code.”
    ― Robert W. Service, The Cremation of Sam McGee
    tags: debt, poetry, promise
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  • #30
    William Blake
    “O Rose, thou art sick.
    The invisible worm
    That flies in the night
    In the howling storm

    Has found out thy bed
    Of crimson joy,
    And his dark secret love
    Does thy life destroy.”
    ― William Blake, Songs of Experience
    tags: corruption, destruction, innocence, innocence-lost, rose, seduction, sickness, virtue, worm
    64 likes



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