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“Thousands of years have slipped by since those days, but you need no late-coming lover to snatch your memory from the power of oblivion; for every mother-tongue commemorates you—and still you reward your lover more gloriously than anyone.”
Soren Kierkegaard, Fear And Trembling

John Fowles
“Utram bibis? Aquam an undam? Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?”
John Fowles, The Magus

Gertrude Stein
“Whenever you get there, there is no there there.”
Gertrude Stein

A. Helwa
“Rabbi Nachman of Breslov said, “The day you were born is the day God decided that the world could not exist without you.”
A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam

John Fowles
“Her stare fixed me. Without rancour and without regret; without triumph and without evil; as Desdemona once looked back on Venice.

On the incomprehension, the baffled rage of Venice. I had taken myself to be in some way the traitor Iago punished, in an unwritten sixth act. Chained in hell. But I was also Venice; the state left behind; the thing journeyed from.”
John Fowles, The Magus

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