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Painting a portrait of himself to be hung in the shrine he built for himself to pray to himself.
This is something i would most definitely do
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
― Strenuous Life
― Strenuous Life
“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
― White Nights
― White Nights
“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
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“omnis mundi creatura / quasi liber et pictura / nobis est in speculum
(all the creatures of the world / as a book and a picture / are to us a mirror)”
― The Name of the Rose
(all the creatures of the world / as a book and a picture / are to us a mirror)”
― The Name of the Rose
“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more”
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There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more”
―
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