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“Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Those eyes! those large, those shining, those divine orbs! they became to me twin stars of
Leda, and I to them devoutest of astrologers.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Ligeia

“Now, then, did my spirit fully and freely burn with more than all the fires of her own.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Ligeia

“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People