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The Dark Mirror (The Bridei Chronicles, #1)

by Juliet Marillier (Goodreads Author)

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Oct 07, 2023 08:46PM

“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
― Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

tags: art, artists, evil, happiness, pain

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“Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.”
― Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

tags: communication

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“And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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“Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.”
― Anne Carson

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“When they made love
Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back
as it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way down
from the base of the neck
to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

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