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The Ash Wednesday Supper (RSART: Renaissance Society of America Reprint Text Series)

by Giordano Bruno

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Vladimir’s Quotes

“At every person's birth, he or she is assigned a certain daemon by his own star, a guardian of life to help with his destined task.”
― Marsilio Ficino

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“How slow life is, how violent hope is.”
― Guillaume Apollinaire

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“Some people are fond of horses, others of wild animals; in my case, I have been possessed since childhood by a prodigious desire to buy and own books.”
― Julian the Apostate

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“But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you—the social reformers—see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.”
― Isaiah Berlin

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