A great book is like great evil.
CALLIMACHUS
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O Charidas, what of the under world? Great darkness. And what of the resurrection? A lie. And Pluto? A fable; we perish utterly.
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I abhor, too, the roaming lover, nor do I drink from every well; I loathe all things in common.
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Big book, a big bore.
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I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.
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And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales awake; For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take.
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