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The American

by Henry James

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The Discourses and Other Early Political Writings

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Matter and Desire: An Erotic Ecology

by Andreas Weber

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xenya’s Quotes

“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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“We violate no body so much as our own: towards it we display the perversity of the cat that constantly rips its wounds open.”
― V.S. Naipaul, The Mimic Men

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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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