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The Traveller and Other Stories

by Stuart Neville (Goodreads Author)

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Carey’s Quotes

“Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum. (To such heights of evil are men driven by religion.)”
― Lucretius, The Way Things Are

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“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Selected Poems

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“Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.”
― Stefan Zweig, The Post-Office Girl

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“Be as thou wast wont to be.
See as thou wast wont to see.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

tags: identity, individuality, play, shakespeare

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“A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.”
― Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries

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