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a collection of literature

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I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.

- the song of achilles, madeline miller

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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.

- edvard munch

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Pylades: I’ll take care of you. Orestes: It’s rotten work. Pylades: Not to me. Not if it’s you.

- orestes, euripides

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Världen badar i blod för att Gud måtte leva.

- septemberlyran, edith södergran

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at your best, you are love

you’re a positive motivating force within my life

if you ever feel the need to wonder why

let me know

- at your best (you are love), frank ocean

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you will make something

it’ll take you through

- dear april, frank ocean

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As soon as the full moon comes to give its blessing.

- iphigenia in aulis, euripides

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"Ah!" he thought to himself, "she is Poetry."

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this angel in all the glory of youth, and hope, and promise of the future, with that sweet smile of hers, and the great dark eyes with all heaven in them, and the glowing light of the sun?

- lost illusions, honoré de balzac

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Let the Universe flow into your consciousness, there is no limit to its capacity, nothing that it shall not re-create

- mina loy

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It was your birthright to be, like a Rafael or a Pitt, a great poet at an age when other men are children; it was your fate, the fate of Chateaubriand and of every man of genius, to struggle against jealousy skulking behind the columns of a newspaper, 

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Fancy had scattered flowers and crimson gems over the gloomy little yard

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but the friends felt neither hunger nor thirst; life had turned to a golden dream, and all the treasures of the world lay at their feet. Far away on the horizon lay the blue streak to which Hope points a finger

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Eve was tall, dark-haired, dark of complexion, and blue-eyed; she was gentle, tender-hearted, and devoted to those she loved. Her frank innocence, her simplicity, her quiet acceptance of a hard-working life, her character

- les deux poètes (illusions perdues), honoré de balzac

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I hear people speaking ill

Of that which they seek for still;

- tristan and isolde, gottfried von strassburg 

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and love is a poem that we live.

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Dear boy, lovers are for each other their whole family.

- les deux poètes (illusions perdues), honoré de balzac

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"Whence came these two radiant, celestial brothers, united for an instant as they crossed the stratosphere of our starry window? One from the East, and one from the West."

- grand budapest hotel

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  You're all demureness, butter wouldn't melt

  In your mouth

- tartuffe, molière

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had the youthful Moses listened to and accepted that view of life, had he bowed his head and bowed his will and bowed his spirit before that arrogant admonition he would never have brought the chosen people out of their house of bondage

- ulysses, james joyce