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“Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.”
― The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.”
― The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
“In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.”
― Fools, Martyrs, Traitors: The Story of Martyrdom in the Western World
― Fools, Martyrs, Traitors: The Story of Martyrdom in the Western World
“Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.”
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“Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.”
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Emer’s 2025 Year in Books
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