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The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)

by Mary Renault

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Iván’s Notes & Highlights

Los demonios by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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–¿Usted no reza? –Yo le rezo a todo. Vea esa araña que trepa por la pared; yo la miro y le doy las gracias por trepar.

“...the books that prove most agreeable, grateful, and companionable, are those we pick up by chance here and there; those which seem put into our hands by Providence; those which pretend to little, but abound by much.”
― Herman Melville, White Jacket, or the World in a Man-Of-War: Volume Five, Scholarly Edition

tags: herman-melville, white-jacket

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“Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary

tags: deserve, nobody, nothing, owe, spring, virginia-woolf

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“My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.”
― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

tags: inspirational, power-of-words, writing

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“Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels.”
― William Carlos Williams

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“The master said You must write what you see.
But what I see does not move me.
The master answered Change what you see.”
― Louise Glück, Vita Nova

tags: perception, poetry

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