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A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems

by Fernando Pessoa

bookshelves: own, poetry, currently-reading

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Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

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“Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

tags: life, peace, soul

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“Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say
that we devise their misery. But they
themselves- in their depravity- design
grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

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“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

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“Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: disappointment, dorian-gray, marriage, men, relationships, women

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“Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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