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Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake

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When you learn a new word, you suddenly see it everywhere. The mind comforts itself by believing this to be coincidence but it isn’t—it’s ignorance falling away. Your future self will always see what your present self is blind to.

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“I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

tags: achilles, love, never, patrochilles, patroclus

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“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

tags: books, love, reading

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“Mephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it.
Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God
And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells
In being deprived of everlasting bliss?”
― Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

tags: damned, hell, religion

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“I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel...”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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“Those seconds, half seconds, that the line of our gaze connected, were the only moment in my day that I felt anything at all.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

tags: achilles, gaze-connected, patrochilles, patroclus

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