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Philoctetes

by Sophocles

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The Book of Tea

by Kakuzō Okakura

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L'Œil et l'Esprit

by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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“His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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“In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.”
― Okakura Kakuzo, The Book of Tea

tags: flowers

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“What is youth? A dream. What is love? The dream’s content.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

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“Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt an unknown and timid preasure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odor.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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