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How often was it, I wondered then, that the path we took was one forced upon us?
“I am like Icarus without wings. But the desire to fly was very strong in me. I think I was always looking for a Daedalus.”
― The Birth of Venus
― The Birth of Venus
“Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again”
― The Iliad
― The Iliad
“But as it is, death is everywhere
In more shapes than we can count,
And since no mortal is immune or can escape,
Let's go forward, either to give glory
To another man or get glory from him.”
― Iliad
In more shapes than we can count,
And since no mortal is immune or can escape,
Let's go forward, either to give glory
To another man or get glory from him.”
― Iliad
“Any pleasure I took in life I now renounce; it’s death I want.”
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“Or let us posit that it is incumbent upon us to found a materialism of grace through the strong, simple idea that every existence can one day be seized by what happens to it and subsequently devote itself to that which is valid for all, or as Paul magnificently puts it, 'become all things to all men'.”
― Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism
― Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism
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