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“She was like a woman of Leonardo Da Vinci's, whom we love not so much for herself as for the things that she will not tell us.”
― E.M. Forster

tags: a-room-with-a-view, leonardo-da-vinci, lucy-honeychurch

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“In such uncommon longings, hidden in plain sight in our lives, does God call us.”
― James Martin, SJ

tags: catholicism, god, james-martin-sj, mysticism

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“Suddenly I wasn't thinking of Daisy or Gatsby anymore, but of this clean, hard, limited person, who dealt in universal skepticism, and who leaned back jauntily just within the circle of my arm.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: f-scott-fitzgerald, gatsby, jordan-baker, nick-carraway, romance, the-great-gatsby

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“Still, compared to him, compared to the people we descend from, I am free of history. I'm so free of history I have to get in a car and drive seven states to find it.”
― Sarah Vowell

tags: america, american-history, history, memoir

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“Your friend Plato holds that commonwealths will only be happy when either philosophers rule or rulers philosophize: how remote happiness must appear when philosophers won't even deign to share their thoughts with kings.”
― Thomas More

tags: leadership, philosopher-king, philosophy, plato, thomas-more, utopia

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