“How could we have been otherwise? Or, being that way, have done otherwise? We were that way, at that time, and had been led to that place, not by any innate evil in ourselves, but by the state of our cognition and our experience up until that moment.”
― Lincoln in the Bardo
― Lincoln in the Bardo
“Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.”
― Mrs Dalloway
― Mrs Dalloway
“a perverse and unruly superstition”
― SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
― SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
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