grief more than in joy, man longs to know that the universe turns around him. - Mary Renault

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People who have earned no pride in themselves, are content to be proud of their cities through other men.

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It is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting.

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One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk.

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