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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, when...”
– 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 ...”
– 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)
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