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No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.
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My mind is filled with cataclysm and apocalypse. I wish for earthquakes, eruptions, flood.
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. . .nothing could eclipse the stain of his dirty, mortal mediocrity.
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and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.
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The door snicked shut.
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She wants you to be a god," I told him. "I know." His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself…
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Odysseus inclines his head. "True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What…
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When I first started studying Greek, one of my absolute favorite parts was realizing that so many English words had these old,…
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I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his…
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I shift, an infinitesimal movement, towards him. It is like the leap from a waterfall. I do not know, until then, what…
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I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me. If I had had…
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I lay back and tried not to think of the minutes passing. Just yesterday we had a wealth of them. Now each…
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The earth is rocking, the skies are riven-- Jove in a passion, in god-like fashion, Is breaking the crystal urns of heaven.
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Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup…
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In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a…
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