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Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier...
– The Iliad, Homer (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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We, like the leaves which come forth in the flowery season of spring,
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– Mimnermus
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To Athena
Of Pallas Athena, guardian of the city, I begin to sing. Dread is...
– Homeric Hymn to Athena
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Across the pale stillness
of water keel-carven, these lovely eyes of desire
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– Simonides of Ceos
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Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death
– Homer (The Odyssey)
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Some say a host of horsemen is the most beautiful thing
on the black earth,...
– Sappho
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Zeus, who guided men to think, has laid it down that wisdom comes alone through...
– Aeschylus, The Oresteia, Agamemnon
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The Children of Night
“Night gave birth to hateful Destruction and the black...
– Hesiod, The Theogony (The account of the birth of the world and Greek gods)
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The stars are suspended on strings that are pulled up in the daytime and let...
– Babylonian Mythology, 3000 B.C. (via xineann) (via shinyslingback)