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Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds…
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It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public…
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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting…
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let go of…
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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must…
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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a…
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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
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Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of…
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A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting…
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This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance…
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The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it…
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It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small…
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Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the…
— D. H. Lawrence
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In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the…
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You know what would help this boy?" Demeter mused. "Farming." Persephone rolled her eyes. "Mother-" "Six months behind a plow. Excellent character…
— Rick Riordan
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Husband, we talked about this," Persephone chided. "You can't go around incinerating every hero. Besides, he's brave. I like that." Hades rolled…
— Rick Riordan
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Take from my palms, to soothe your heart, a little honey, a little sun, in obedience to Persephone's bees. You can't untie…
— Osip Mandelstam
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I am Persephone" she said, her voice thin and papery. "Welcome, demigods. Nico squashed a pomegranate under his boot. "Welcome? After last…
— Rick Riordan
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I'm very nearly drunk enough to be transcendent," Calla said after a space. She was not the only psychic drinking, but she…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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I was thinking about framing, and how so much of what we think about our lives and our personal histories revolves around…
— Kiersten White
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When I did see the story of Persephone, I was really drawn to it. Persephone, the goddess of spring, was kept from…
— Meg Cabot
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Mother, why will you not wait for me, when I am trying to hold you, so that even in Hades with our…
— Odysseus
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