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“At an age when Names, offering us the image of the unknowable that we have invested in them and simultaneously designating a real place for us, force us accordingly to identify the one with the other, to a point where we go off to a city to seek out a soul that it cannot contain but which we no longer have the power to expel from its name, it is not only to cities and ruins that they give an individuality, as do allegorical paintings, nor is it only the physical world that they spangle with differences and people with marvels, it is the social world as well: so every historic house, every famous residence or palace, has its lady or its fairy, as forests have their spirits and rivers their deities.”
― Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

“Blessed are the Peacemakers for they shall be called Communists”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, In Battle for Peace: The Story of My 83rd Birthday

“And so long as you haven't experienced this: to die and so to grow, you are only a troubled stranger on the dark earth.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Selected Poetry

“He thought in other heads, and in his own, others besides himself thought”
― Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera