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The Odyssey
“Why cover the same ground again? … It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.” - Homer, The Odyssey
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Island Universes
“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations,...
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The Little Prince
“She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her… I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her…”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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