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"...when men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow quits the horizon." ~Thomas Paine

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Solomon Ibn Gabirol, translated by Raymond Scheindlin

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Having experienced both, I am not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.

Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

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"And she, dying again, made no complaint (for what complaint had she save she was loved?) and breathed a faint farewell, and turned again back to the land of spirits whence she came." -Ovid, Metamorphoses Painting by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld

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Happy National Book Lovers Day!

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From A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman

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The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.

Kenzaburō Ōe

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From Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare

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14 chapters in, and I haven't decided if The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah lives up to its hype.

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Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you.

Anthony Bourdain

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In love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.

Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale