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Πέρασμα

by Nella Larsen

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Δάκρυα ξυράφι

by S.A. Cosby (Goodreads Author)

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Το ορφανοτροφείο

by Serhiy Zhadan

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Eleni’s Quotes

“If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

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“Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman... Which is probably the same thing!”
― Apostolos Doxiadis, Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

tags: abyss, death, logic, madmen, mystics, war

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“Αν δεν ξεχειλίσει η καρδιά του ανθρώπου από αγάπη ή από θυμό, τίποτα δεν μπορεί να γίνει στον κόσμο...”
― Νίκος Καζαντζάκης, Christ Recrucified

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“The universe doesn't allow perfection.”
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

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“It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity no to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

tags: existentialism, feminism

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