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O, a cherubim Thou wast that did preserve me.
William Shakespeare • The Tempest
Alas, this black sorrowful sea below me! Alas, this pregnant nocturnal dismay! Alas, destiny and sea! To you I must now go down! Before my highest mountain I stand and before my longest wandering; to that end I must first go down deeper than ever I descended—deeper into pain than ever I descended, down into its blackest flood. Thus my destiny wants
... See moreFriedrich Nietzsche • The Portable Nietzsche (Portable Library)
O Divine Poesy, goddess, daughter of Zeus, sustain for me this song
Steven Pressfield • The War of Art
Milton and Locke, Rousseau, Jean Paul, and Goethe are the legitimate descendants. Like Dante or Bunyan, he has a revelation of another life; like Bacon, he is profoundly impressed with the unity of knowledge;
Benjamin Jowett • The Republic
