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The Jewish Gospels

by Daniel Boyarin

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Devil Worship: The Sacred Books and Traditions of the Yezidiz (Forgotten Books)

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The Mandaeans: The Last Gnostics (Italian Texts and Studies on Religion and Society (ITSORS))

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― Frank O'Hara

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“The dominance of former communists and the insufficient discussion of the past in the post-communist world is not coincidental. To put it bluntly, former communists have a clear interest in concealing the past: it tarnishes them, undermines them, hurts their claims to be carrying out 'reforms,' even when they personally had nothing to do with the past crimes.”
― Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History

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“Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.”
― Frank O'Hara, Meditations in an Emergency

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