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Saturnalia
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Of all the cards in the deck, the Tree of Life may be the most familiar. It suggests the Garden of Eden and immortality, the spheres of the Kabbalah, the ash where Odin hanged, which holds up the heavens. Depending on the cards arranged
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“When we commemorate the end of a war, we neglect the way that it began. Every war ends, after all; but not every war had to begin.”
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“All that can be done is for each one of us to invent our own ideal library of our classics; and I would say that one half of it should consist of books we have read and that have meant something for us, and the other half of books which we intend to read and which we suppose might mean something to us. We should also leave a section of empty spaces for surprises and chance discoveries.”
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“Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.”
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“A man’s conscience may tell him to do the vilest things.”
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“Instead, he described the way the sun set in the valley of Apan: first rich golden, deepening to amber, and then, with a swift, sure strike, night overtook the sun like the extinguishing of a candle. The darkness in the valley was so deep it was almost blue, and when thunderstorms slinked over steep hills into the valley, lightning spilled like mercury across fields of maguey, silvering the plants' sharp tips like the peaked helmets of conquistadors.”
― The Hacienda
― The Hacienda
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