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Flaco Lacayo said:
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Way too long for me. It feels like a compilation of several short stories, all take place in London but they really are separate stories.
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Caterina de鈥 Medici,
Wish her character had been more developed. She is such a giant of the 16th century. Surely she could have played a bigger role in the novel.
“Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms -- you鈥檒l be able to use them better when you鈥檙e older.”
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“If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you鈥檙e needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature.”
― Antigone
― Antigone
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
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“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”
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