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Listened on Audible 7/24/2025.

"Oh, sons of the Greeks! Strike for the freedom of your country! strike for the freedom of your children and of your wives—for the shrines of your fathers' gods and for the sepulchers of your sires. All—all are now staked upon the strife." - Cry of the Greeks at the Battle of Marathon

"Gaulois, puisque vous avez juré ma perte, je vais vous montrer par Osiris, comment meurt une reine."

Suddenly as she watched, the sky folded back in two pieces like the curtain to a stage and a gigantic figure stood facing her. It was the color of the sun in the early afternoon, white-gold. It was of no definite shape but there were fiery wheels with fierce dark eyes in them, spinning rapidly all around it....She shut her eyes in order to look at it and it turned blood-red and the wheels turned white. ..."Prophesy!"

"The world, my son, is not an eternal realm. There is no hope of fidelity from the world. / Was not Solomon's carpet carried on the wind morn and eve? / Do you not see how in the end it too went with the wind? / Happy is he who departs with knowledge and justice."

"God made me thisaway and I don't dispute hit."
"Raise yourself up. A temple of the Holy Ghost. You! You are God's temple, don't you know? Don't you know? God's Spirit has a dwelling in you, don't you know."
"If anybody desecrates the temple of God, God will bring him to ruin and if you laugh, He may strike you thisaway. A temple of God is a holy thing. Amen. Amen."

Hill house, not sane, stood against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, its walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.

"...what we have called the republic has been only an unclassifiable monster....What does it matter to me whether tyranny wears a royal mantle or a tribune's toga if I feel its hand weighing on me? When Danton strangled unhappy prisoners whose sole crime was not to think as he did, was that liberty?...we in France have seen anarchy and despotism under all their forms but nothing which resembles a republic"Toqueville