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“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
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“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
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“My soul would sing of metamorphoses.
But since, o gods, you were the source of these
bodies becoming other bodies, breathe
your breath into my book of changes: may
the song I sing be seamless as its way
weaves from the world's beginning to our day.”
― Metamorphoses
But since, o gods, you were the source of these
bodies becoming other bodies, breathe
your breath into my book of changes: may
the song I sing be seamless as its way
weaves from the world's beginning to our day.”
― Metamorphoses
“Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.
(In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)”
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(In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)”
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“Dwell on the past and you’ll lose an eye.” But the proverb goes on to say: “Forget the past and you’ll lose both eyes.”
― The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
― The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
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