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Running Close to the Wind

by Alexandra Rowland (Goodreads Author)

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A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems

by Fernando Pessoa

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Classical Philosophy (A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps #1)

by Peter S. Adamson

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magpie’s Quotes

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

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“She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

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“All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

tags: blood, cruelty, fear, gods, religion, suffering

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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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