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Meditations • Marcus Aurelius“There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.”
Ulysses • James Joyce“The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached -- and against which he taught his disciples to fight.”
Unpublished fragment • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche