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“Dostoyevsky knew a lot but not everything. He, for instance, thought that if you kill a human you’ll turn into Raskolnikov. But we know now that one can kill five – ten, one hundred people – and go to the theatre in the evening.”
― Anna Akhmatova

“for when i look at you, even a moment, no
speaking is left in me
no: tongue breaks and thin
fire is racing under skin”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“To the dear lone lands untroubled of men,
Where no voice sounds, and amid the shadowy green
The little things of the woodland live unseen.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae of Euripides

“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.”
― Thucydides