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“Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.”
― The Iliad
― The Iliad
“Compared to the dullest human being actually walking about on the face of the earth and casting his shadow there, the most brilliantly drawn character in a novel is but a bag of bones.”
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“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”
― The Iliad
― The Iliad
“Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away.”
― The Iliad
― The Iliad
Virginia’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Virginia’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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308 friends
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