“The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.”
― The Uses of Literature
― The Uses of Literature
“Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss of Eden, till one greater Man/Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,/Sing heavenly muse”
― Paradise Lost
― Paradise Lost
“To be strong is to understand weakness. To be weak is to have fears. To have fears is to have something precious to you. To have something precious to you is to be strong.”
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“Solitude sometimes is best society.”
― Paradise Lost
― Paradise Lost
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