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“Facilis descensus Averni:
noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis;
sed revocare gradium superasque evadere ad auras.
hoc opus, hic labor est.”
― The Aeneid
noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis;
sed revocare gradium superasque evadere ad auras.
hoc opus, hic labor est.”
― The Aeneid
“It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.”
― The Histories
― The Histories
“Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.”
― American Gods
― American Gods
“He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another.”
― The Souls of Black Folk
― The Souls of Black Folk
“Before me things created were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I endure.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”
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Eternal, and eternal I endure.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”
―
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