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Shadows of the Clouds

by James Anthony Froude

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Closet Devotions (Series Q)

by Richard Rambuss

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Six Books on the Priesthood (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press Popular Patristics Series)

by John Chrysostom

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xenya’s Quotes

“The less you say, the more weight your words will carry.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

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“We lead strange lives, chasing our dreams around from place to place.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

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“forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.
and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day”
― Virgil, Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid, Books 1–6

tags: 4-203, forsan, meminisse, optimism, perhaps, poetry

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“You are not the last dream of my soul.

You are the first dream, the only dream I ever was unable to stop myself from dreaming. You are the first dream of my soul, and from that dream I hope will come all other dreams, a lifetime’s worth.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

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“I have become a collapsing star, pulling everything around it, even the light, into an ever-expanding void.”
― Twan Eng Tan, The Garden of Evening Mists

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