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Byzantium: The Decline and Fall

by John Julius Norwich

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“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Isidore of Seville

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“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: capital-punishment, death-penalty, gandalf, j-r-r-tolkien, lord-of-the-rings

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“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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“In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

tags: brooding, enlightenment, expression, face, faces, life, loneliness, loner, peace, pensive, restlessness, silence, sorrow, thought, wandering, wisdom, wise-man

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“He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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