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Lidya
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"Best book EVER but I'm doing too much uni related reading to come back to it before mid summer" — May 18, 2024 04:12AM
"Best book EVER but I'm doing too much uni related reading to come back to it before mid summer" — May 18, 2024 04:12AM
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"I left this book in my Airbnb in Sarajevo and I don't have the money or time to invest in a new copy." — May 18, 2024 04:11AM
"I left this book in my Airbnb in Sarajevo and I don't have the money or time to invest in a new copy." — May 18, 2024 04:11AM
“Friendship is a tension. It makes delicate demands.”
― Electra
― Electra
“By dread things I am compelled. I know that. I see the trap closing. I know what I am. But while life is in me I will not stop this violence. No. Oh my friends who is there to comfort me? Who understands? Leave me be, let me go, do not soothe me. This is a knot no one can untie. There will be no rest, there is no retrieval. No number exists for griefs like these.”
― Electra
― Electra
“Not from Hades' black and universal lake can you lift him. Not by groaning, not by prayers. Yet you run yourself out in a grief with no cure, no time-limit, no measure. It is a knot no one can untie. Why are you so in love with things unbearable?”
― Electra
― Electra
“Think again, Electra. Don't say anymore. Don't you see what you're doing? You make your own pain. Why keep wounding yourself? With so much evil stored up in that cold dark soul of yours you breed enemies everywhere you touch.”
― Electra
― Electra
“But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.”
― Works and Days and Theogony
― Works and Days and Theogony
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