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“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
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“Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other - and wander together for a brief moment. Then we lose each other and disappear as suddenly and unreasonably as we arrived.”
― Sophie’s World
― Sophie’s World
“Superstitious." What a strange word. If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called "faith". But if you believed in astrology or Friday the thirteenth it was superstition! Who had the right to call other people's belief superstition?”
― Sophie’s World
― Sophie’s World
“Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.”
― The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men
― The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men
“But it appeared to Dorian Gray that the true nature of the senses had never been understood, and that they had remained savage and animal merely because the world had sought to stave them into submission or to kill them by pain, instead of aiming at making them elements of a new spirituality, of which a fine instinct for beauty was to be the dominant characteristic.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mateo’s 2024 Year in Books
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