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

by Francis Young

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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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“Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.”
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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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