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The Handmaid's Tale
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by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
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Dec 18, 2025 02:00PM

 
The Hero With a T...
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"Reading this book is like walking through waist-deep powder snow; each word is another step, driving my knee through the medium.
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-Dreams are the myths of a human, myths are the dreams of humanity
-Mythology's function is to carry the human spirit forward via symbolism
-A hero must detach/withdraw, enter the internal realm within, triumph over local mythologies, and become an "archetypal image""
Nov 20, 2025 07:28AM

 
Caligula and Thre...
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"Caligula
“One is always free at someone else’s expense”
“I want to drown the sky in the sea, to infuse ugliness with beauty, to wring a laugh from pain.”
“Yes, I wanted the moon”
“Most people imagine that a man suffers because out of the blue death snatches away the woman he loves. But his real suffering is less futile; it comes from the discovery that grief, too, cannot last. Even grief is vanity.”"
Nov 17, 2025 06:24PM

 
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Albert Camus
“Most people imagine that a man suffers because out of the blue, Death snatches away the woman he loves. But his real suffering is less futile; it comes from the discovery that grief, too, cannot last. Even grief is vanity!”
Albert Camus, Caligula

Yukio Mishima
“If my self was my dwelling, then my body resembled an orchard that surrounded it. I could either cultivate that orchard to its capacity or leave it for the weeds to run riot in.”
Yukio Mishima, Sun & Steel

Agatha Christie
“I have, let me confess it in all humility, a pitiful human wish that someone should know just how clever I have been”
Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None

Yukio Mishima
“It is a rather risky matter to discuss a happiness that has no need of words.”
Yukio Mishima, Sun & Steel

Fyodor Dostoevsky
“I don’t know how to be silent when my heart is speaking.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

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