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Electra

by Euripides

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"The way Euripides took women in the shadows of the myths, centered them and explored what if they were given the space to be complex humans and not just doing things at the whims of gods… and he did all this 2500 years ago!!!" — May 24, 2025 09:39PM

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Keely’s Notes & Highlights

The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde

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ghost at a valuation.

Valuation of a ghost - capitalism meets the spirit world of old

Keely’s Quotes

“Teach her to reject likeability. Her job is not to make herself likeable, her job is to be her full self, a self that is honest and aware of the equal humanity of other people.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

tags: good-girl

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“...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

tags: life, memory, pain, pleasure

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“Literature is humanity talking to itself.”
― Norman Rush

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“Poetry is the language of the gods. I love poems myself. But poetry is not only in poems; it is diffused everywhere, it is around us. Look at those trees, that sky on all sides there is the breath of beauty, and of life, and where there is life and beauty, there is poetry also.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Rudin

tags: beauty-in-life, poems, poetry

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“That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”
― Connie Willis, Passage

tags: death, life, literature, messages

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