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“My life is the crown, yours is politics and I won’t trade one cage for another. I can love you and want you and still not want that life, and it doesn’t make me a liar. It makes me a man with some infinitesimal shred of self-preservation”
― Red, White & Royal Blue
― Red, White & Royal Blue
“My friend Patroclus, whom I loved, is dead.
I loved him more than any other comrade.
I loved him like my head, my life, myself.
I lost him, killed him.
[. . .]
. . .my Patroclus, son of Menoetius.”
― The Iliad
I loved him more than any other comrade.
I loved him like my head, my life, myself.
I lost him, killed him.
[. . .]
. . .my Patroclus, son of Menoetius.”
― The Iliad
“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
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“The beginning is always today.”
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“A last request—grant it, please.
Never bury my bones apart from yours, Achilles,
let them lie together . . .
just as we grew up together in your house”
― The Iliad
Never bury my bones apart from yours, Achilles,
let them lie together . . .
just as we grew up together in your house”
― The Iliad
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