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The place that the shepherds found was not an academy or an abstract republic, it was not a place of myths allegorised or dissected or explained or explained away. It was a place of dreams come true. Since that hour no mythologies have been made in the world. Mythology is a search.
G K. Chesterton • The Everlasting Man (with linked TOC)
La Llorona belongs to the category of tales that the cantadoras y cuentistas in our family call temblón, shiver stories. These overtly entertain, but are meant to cause listeners to experience a shiver of awareness that
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
the whole sky in her eyes.
Sarah Priscus • Groupies: A Novel
El Pequeño Libro de la Psicología del Color: Descubre el Significado de los Colores y Cómo Influyen en las Personas (Spanish Edition)
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After you interact with Ginevra de’ Benci long enough, what at first seem like a vacant face and distant stare begin to appear suffused with a haunting tinge of emotion. She seems pensive and ruminating, perhaps about her marriage or the departure of Bembo, or because of some deeper mystery. Her life was sad; she was sickly and remained childless.
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There was a room of carvings by Gauguin. And one said: Be mysterious. And the other one said: Be in love, you will be happy.
Andrew Sean Greer • Less (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Novel (The Arthur Less Books Book 1)
‘She was the wife of John Bell, who owned Lowlands until his death in 1889, and we’ve never known anything more about her: it’s as if she’s been cut out of time. We have records of their marriage, but not of her death; we have no portraits of her anywhere, and when the house and contents were sold none of her possessions were listed in the inventor
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