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“Cleopatra’s was an honorable death, a dignified death, an exemplary death. She had presided over it herself, proud and unbroken to the end. By the Roman definition she had at last done something right; finally it was to her credit that she had defied the expectations of her sex.”
― Cleopatra
― Cleopatra
“The word “formidable” sooner or later attaches itself to Cleopatra and here it comes: she was formidable—spirited, disciplined, resourceful—in her retreat. There were no hints of despair. Two thousand years after the fact, you can still hear the fertile mind pulsing with ideas.”
― Cleopatra
― Cleopatra
“Octavian was at once alarmingly impressionable and curiously resistant to advice from his elders.”
― Cleopatra
― Cleopatra
“Something that frustrated Sebastian, as I’m sure you’re aware, Adrian, is how Cleopatra’s intelligence is still to this day underestimated for this notion of her being this famed seductress.”
― The Cleopatra Cipher
― The Cleopatra Cipher
“Perhaps life was just an accumulation of such strange and trivial mysteries, Mio thought.”
― The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
― The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
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