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“I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“But why are they so fond of me if I don't deserve it? Oh, if only I were alone and no one loved me and I too had never loved anyone! Nothing of all this would have happened.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“I would say, some people are like constellations that only touch the earth for a season.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“I say Live, Live because of the sun,
the dream, the excitable gift.”
― Anne Sexton