“Some people have children. I have books. Much more interesting and they never ask me for money.”
― Poe
― Poe
“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
“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
“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
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