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Nordic Tales: Folktales from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and Denmark

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Birsen’s Quotes

“[...] but perhaps no kindness was possible between owner and slave, only varying degrees of brutality?”
― Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls

tags: power, slavery

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“Gaia listened carefully to this wise counsel and - as we all do, whether mortal or immortal - ignored it.”
― Stephen Fry, Mythos - The Greek Myths Retold

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“he’s beginning to understand that grief doesn’t strike bargains. There’s no way of avoiding the agony—or even of getting through it faster. It’s got him in its claws and it won’t let go till he’s learnt every lesson it has to teach.”
― Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls

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“When lust descends, discretion, common sense and wisdom fly off and what may seem cunning concealment to one in the grip of passion looks like transparently clumsy idiocy to everyone else.”
― Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold

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“Gaia visited her daughter Mnemosyne, who was busy being unpronounceable.”
― Stephen Fry, Mythos - The Greek Myths Retold

tags: funny, greek, humor, humour, language, myth, mythology, myths, pronounciation

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