

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.”
― The Prophet
― The Prophet

“Ut haec ipsa qui non sentiat deorum vim habere is nihil omnino sensurus esse videatur."
If any man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.”
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If any man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.”
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“Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?”
― Vanity Fair
― Vanity Fair

“Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.”
― The Hound of the Baskervilles
― The Hound of the Baskervilles

“All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”
― The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
― The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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