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The Italian

by Ann Radcliffe

bookshelves: currently-reading, 18th-century-lit, fantasy-horror, women-writers

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"It is no the truth which you seek; it is not the guilty whom you punish; the innocent, having no crimes to confess, are the victims of your cruelty, or, to escape from it, become criminal and proclaim a lie." — 18 hours, 5 min ago

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Dune (Dune #1) by Frank Herbert

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rite. “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its ...more

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“I am not entitled to life without death. I embrace sacred life. I embrace sacred death. I embrace the growing and crumbling in between.”
― Jarem Sawatsky, Dancing with Elephants: Mindfulness Training For Those Living With Dementia, Chronic Illness or an Aging Brain

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“What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on the last wall of the universe.”
― William Faulkner, Lion in the Garden: Interviews with William Faulkner, 1926-1962

tags: life, making-your-mark, mementos, memories, notice, oblivion

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“If one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore...”
― Joseph Brodsky

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“Nobody Wants the Rain Everybody wants green scenery Nobody wants the rain Everybody wants food on the table Nobody wants the rain Everybody wants the colourful rainbow Nobody wants the rain Everybody wants water in their bodies Nobody wants the rain”
― Jarem Sawatsky, Dancing with Elephants: Mindfulness Training For Those Living With Dementia, Chronic Illness or an Aging Brain

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