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“If you are a simple mortal, do not speak of tomorrow or how long this man may be among the happy, for change comes suddenly like the shifting flight of a dragonfly.”

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“Against those who are indebted to the allegorical utopian model and its offshoots, the Memory Palace proves that alternatives to the tribal consensus exists. Furthermore, this alternative is a leap away, is deeply discontinuous with the allegorists' endless internal struggles for refinement. It promises not quite freedom but the fact that a careful look at history as achievement rather than ruination offers solid evidence that the allegorical utopian has about it no necessity at all.”

Utopia Allegory Simonides Messianism

Book:Love’s Shadow

Source: Love’s Shadow

“Suddenly Dawn in gold sandals”

Willis Barnstone Sappho

Book:The Complete Poems of Sappho

Source: The Complete Poems of Sappho

“But then comes a time when forgetting isn't possible. And I do mean a particular time when no amount of dreaming, not then and maybe not ever, can change how naked and unimportant we become in our own eyes.”

Time Change Value Memory Self Worth Self Respect Dreaming Forgetting Remembering Unimportance

Author:Stig Dagerman

“I have flown to you like a child to her mother.”

Willis Barnstone Sappho

Author:Sappho

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