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A Mughal Empress or Member of the Royal Family | The Wellcome Collection

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Every time I have wrestled either an angel or a devil, I have been usefully but catastrophically defeated. But I have always had the distinct impression of being tuned, of something being burnt off, of giving libation to the god of limits.

Martin Shaw, Courting the Wild Twin

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Sognebunad

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He had the kind of loneliness that battles everything, that makes a person strange forever.

Sofia Samatar, The Winged Histories

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But still, I longed for relatedness. The back-and-forth of the thing. The affectionate affinities, the deathly hard-won totems.

Martin Shaw, Courting the Wild Twin

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Andreas Bloch (Norwegian, 1860 – 1917)

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No one speaks Latin or Greek, poetry and literature are loathed, and people study only to become engineers and bankers.

Alex Landragin, Crossings