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    Madeline Miller
    “But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
    tags: circe, constellations, daedalus, greek-mythology, love, stars
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    Madeline Miller
    “He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
    ― Madeline Miller, Circe
    tags: circe, greek-mythology, intimacy, love, odysseus, scars, vulnerability
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: love, respect
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: soul, souls
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed him the eternal error men make in imagining that their happiness depends on the realization of their desires.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: happiness-fulfillment-desire
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: ignorant, men, noble
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: conditions, life
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: anna-karenina, dishonesty, intellect, pride, stupidity, tolstoy, trickery
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: anna-karenina, goodness, religion
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    Sophocles
    “For if any man thinks that he is alone is wise--that in speech, or in mind, he hath no peer--such a soul, when laid open, is ever found empty.”
    ― Sophocles, Antigone
    tags: humility, pride, solipsism
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    Sophocles
    “he came to know the god intimately and the strange mad flower of his mind dripped in the dark”
    ― Sophocles, Antigone
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    Sophocles
    “There is no more deadly peril than disobedience;
    States are devoured by it, homes laid in ruins,
    Armies defeated, victory turned to rout.
    White simple obedience saves the lives of hundreds
    Of honest folk." - Creon”
    ― Sophocles, Antigone
    tags: antigone, creon, deadly, defeat, disobedience, obedience, obedience-vs-disobedience, peril, ruin, saving-lives, simple-obedience, sophocles, the-theban-plays
    9 likes

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    Sophocles
    “To yield is grievous, but the obstinate soul
    That fights with Fate, is smitten grievously.”
    ― Sophocles, Antigone
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    Sophocles
    “What a splendid king you'd make of a desert island--
    you and you alone.”
    ― Sophocles, Antigone
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    Sophocles
    “Like father like daughter,
    passionate, wild . . .
    she hasn’t learned to bend before adversity.”
    ― Sophocles, Antigone
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    Sophocles
    “Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.”
    ― Sophocles, Antigone
    tags: grief
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  • #19
    Sophocles
    “What a splendid king you'd make of a desert island - you and you alone.”
    ― Sophocles, Antigone
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