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“Strange, isn't it? To have dedicated one's life to a certain venture, neglecting other aspects of one's life, only to have that venture, in the end, amount to nothing at all, the products of one's labors ultimately forgotten?”
― Lincoln in the Bardo
― Lincoln in the Bardo

“Within her presence, I had once been used
to feeling—trembling—wonder, dissolution;
but that was long ago. Still, though my soul,
now she was veiled, could not see her directly,
by way of hidden force that she could move,
I felt the mighty power of old love.”
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to feeling—trembling—wonder, dissolution;
but that was long ago. Still, though my soul,
now she was veiled, could not see her directly,
by way of hidden force that she could move,
I felt the mighty power of old love.”
―

“…I am left with less
than one drop of my blood that does not tremble.
I recognize the the signs of the old flame.”
― The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2: Purgatorio
than one drop of my blood that does not tremble.
I recognize the the signs of the old flame.”
― The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2: Purgatorio

“Why haven’t you changed?’ and she said, ‘Because the year I had this face, the month I wore these clothes, and the day I had my hair like this is my favourite time of all.’ ‘What time is that?’ I asked her. ‘The day we met twenty years ago,’ she said. I wondered to myself, ‘Then why have I aged like this?’ and she told me, ‘Because you wanted to go on changing, moving towards something more and more beautiful.”
― Sanshirō
― Sanshirō

“A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew it so well.”
― Charles Dickens: A Critical Study
― Charles Dickens: A Critical Study

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