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“There can be no god without desire.”

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“There are no gods, only men.”

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“What would the world be like if men never ruled again?”

Men World Ruled

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“And only men could have invented the idea of a king.”

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“Even now, I still believe metamorphosis is the greatest beauty.”

Beauty Metamorphosis

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“A change in those moments, some switch turned off forever, the end of trust or safety or love, and how do we ever find the switch again?”

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“We live through evolution ourselves, each of us, progressing through different apprehensions of the world, at each age forgetting the last age, every previous mind erased. We no longer see the same world at all.”

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“The worst part of childhood is not knowing that bad things pass, that time passes. A terrible moment in childhood hovers with s kind of eternity, unbearable.”

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“As if each of us might somehow have a blueprint. As if somewhere there's the shape of my life, and I had the chance to choose a few variations, but not far from the pattern.”

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“Born to destroy kings, born to reshape the world, born to horrify and break and remake, born to endure and never be erased. Hekate Medea, more than god and more than woman, alive now, in the time of origin.”

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“What would it feel like to be ravished by a god, to hold a deity.”

God Deity Ravished

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“What’s the point of sea horses? I asked. The old man stood before them, mouth hung open, as if before his god.”

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