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Read this book after starting Rene Girard’s Desire, Deceit, and the Novel hoping to see the examples Rene writes about triangular, mimetic desires. I got much, much more than that.The story is romantic, historical, dramatic, and mimetic in nearly eve ...more "
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
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“We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world. The lives that you admire, the attitudes that seem noble to you, have not been shaped by a paterfamilias or a schoolmaster, they have sprung from very different beginnings, having been influenced by evil or commonplace that prevailed round them. They represent a struggle and a victory.”
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“The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it.”
― Beautiful Lies
― Beautiful Lies
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