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""illustrious minds (like Me) were able to realize that the forces of nature are beyond their control, whilst base idiots (like my chambermaid, the dude i buy the milk from, every person currently existing in scotland and of course, Savages) still believed in magic"
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""illustrious minds (like Me) were able to realize that the forces of nature are beyond their control, whilst base idiots (like my chambermaid, the dude i buy the milk from, every person currently existing in scotland and of course, Savages) still believed in magic"
-sir james george frazer ✒️" — Sep 26, 2017 03:15PM
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“Thálatta! Thálatta!”
― The Persian Expedition
― The Persian Expedition
“I feel sorry for novelists when they have to mention women's eyes: there's so little choice, and whatever colouring is decided upon inevitably carries banal implications. Her eyes are blue: innocence and honesty. Her eyes are black: passion and depth. Her eyes are green: wildness and jealousy. Her eyes are violet: the novel is by Raymond Chandler.”
― Flaubert's Parrot
― Flaubert's Parrot
“When, lithe of limb, she danced the Pyrrhic, loud clapping followed; and the Paphlagonians asked, "If these women fought by their side in battle?" to which they answered, "To be sure, it was the women who routed the great King, and drove him out of camp." So ended the night.”
― The Persian Expedition
― The Persian Expedition
“Hace diez años bastaba cualquier simetría con apariencia de orden-el materialismo dialéctico, el antisemitismo, el nazismo- para embelesar a las hombres. ¿Cómo no someterse a Tlön, a la minuciosa y vasta evidencia de un planeta ordenado? Inútil responder que la realidad también está ordenada. QUizá lo esté, pero de acuerod a leyes divinas-traduzco: a leyes inhumanas- que no acabamos nunca de percibir. Tlön será un laberinto, pero es un laberinto urdido por hombres, un laberinto destinado a que lo descifren los hombres.”
― Ficciones
― Ficciones
“No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over?”
― Antigone
― Antigone
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