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“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“From the stars, came the ground. From the ground, we stood. To the ground, we return”
― Becky Chambers, Record of a Spaceborn Few

“Il ne faut jamais rien outrer: One must do nothing in excess”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Full many a gem of purest ray serene,
The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.”
― Thomas Gray, An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard