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Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe's Last Pagan Peoples

by Francis Young

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“She had such control of tone, in her text messages, she was the Edith Wharton of text messaging.”
― Keith Gessen, All the Sad Young Literary Men

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“Sometimes I feel like Fletcher Christian.”
― Mekons, Hello Cruel World: Selected Lyrics

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“He was getting to be a certain age, he thought. It was the age when his never-to-be-written masterpieces had begun to outweigh the masterpieces he was still going to write.”
― Keith Gessen, All the Sad Young Literary Men

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“Everything in the existing world seemed strange to him; it was as if the world had been created for some brief, mocking game. But this game of make-believe had dragged on for a long time,for eternity, and nobody felt like laughing anymore.”
― Andrei Platonov, Soul

tags: life, life-lessons

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“In the first few seconds an aching sadness wrenched his heart, but it soon gave way to a feeling of sweet disquiet, the excitement of gypsy wanderlust”
― Mikhail Bulgakov

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