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“Death twitches my ear;
'Live,' he says...
'I'm coming.”
― Virgil

tags: carpe-diem, creepy, death, death-and-dying, inspirational, living, philosophical, philosophy, seize-the-day

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“Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special
providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,
'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be
now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the
readiness is all.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: augury, hamlet, providence, que-sera-sera, readiness, sadness

80 likes

“I write to discover what I know.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

tags: comment-of-the-times

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“There is only one way to salvation, and that is to make yourself responsible for all men's sins. As soon as you make yourself responsible in all sincerity for everything and for everyone, you will see at once that this is really so, and that you are in fact to blame for everyone and for all things.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: orthodoxy, salvation, sin

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