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“We were both getting what we needed, though I could have done without him. It turned out he could not do without me. He likened his relationship with me to Icarus. He was Icarus and I was the sun. Lines like these, which I wholly believed and still do, made me sick to my stomach. What kind of a girl wants to be a sun over a country she doesn’t even want to visit.”
― Animal
― Animal
“But surely every man is his own god: Fortune refuses her aid to those who merely pray, and take no action.”
― The Fall of Icarus
― The Fall of Icarus
“[i]νυκτὸς ἐρεμαίης ἀλαώπιδος...[/i]
Of night, the lonely, with her sightless eyes.”
― The Fragments of Empedocles
Of night, the lonely, with her sightless eyes.”
― The Fragments of Empedocles
“I'm terrified at the moral apathy, the death of the heart, which is happening in my country. These people have deluded themselves for so long that they really don't think I'm human. And I base this on their conduct, not on what they say. And this means that they have become in themselves moral monsters.”
― I Am Not Your Negro
― I Am Not Your Negro
“It’s painful, sometimes, to look back on a life and wonder if anything you did could have made any difference. So much is lost; and what’s lost is lost forever. Was it destined to be lost, or could we have saved it?”
― Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
― Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
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