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De Saint-Exupery, Antoine. Terre des hommes [Wind, Sand and Stars]. Gallimard, 1939.

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Bradstreet, Anne. "To my Dear and Loving Husband." Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Full of Delight. Boston: John Foster, 1678, I. 1.

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Bradstreet, Anne. "To my Dear and Loving Husband." To My Husband and Other Poems, edited by Robert Hutchinson. Dover Publications, 2011.

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

The Physicists

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Durrenmatt, Friedrich. Die Physiker [The Physicists]. 1962, Zurich, Switzerland, act 2.

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Durrenmatt, Friedrich. The Physicists, translated by Joel Agee. Grove Press, 2010, act 2.

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Heinlein, Robert A [published as Anson MacDonald]. "Beyond This Horizon." Astounding Science Fiction, Apr. 1942 - May 1942.

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Thomas, Dylan. "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night." Botteghe Oscure, 1951.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Requiem fur eine Freundin [Requiem for a Friend]. c. 1908.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. "Requiem for a Friend." The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mitchell. Vintage, 1989.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Emanuel von Bodman. 17 Aug. 1901.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910, translated by Jane B. Greene and M. D. Herter Norton. W. W. Norton & Company, 1969.

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Leopardi, Giacomo. "Cantico del gallo silvestre [Song of the Wild Rooster]." Operette morali [Small Moral Works]. Naples: Presso Saverio Starita, 1835.

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Leopardi, Giacomo. "Song of the Great Wild Rooster." Operette Morali: Essays and Dialogues. University of California Press, 1983.

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Brecht, Bertolt. "Fragen eines lesenden Arbeiters [Questions of a Reading Worker]." Das Wort, 1936.

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Moore, Clement Clarke. "Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas." Sentinel, 23 Dec. 1823.

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Moore, Clement Clarke. The Night Before Christmas. Applesauce Press, 2011.

A life in which the gods are not invited is not worth living. It will be quieter, but there won't be any stories.

Roberto Calasso

The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony

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Calasso, Robert. Le nozze di Cadmo e Armonia [The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmonia]. Adelphi Edizioni, 1988, ch. 12.

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Erdrich, Louise. The Painted Drum. Harper, 2005.

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London, Jack. Quoted in The Bulletin. 2 Dec. 1916.

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Dante. "Purgatorio [Purgatory]." La Comedia di Dante Alleghieri [The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri]. Foligno: Johann Numeister and Evangelista Angelini da Trevi, 1472.

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Dante. "The Purgatorio." The Divine Comedy, edited by David H. Higgins, translated by C. H. Sisson. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 3, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 1.

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De Cervantes, Miguel. El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha [The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha]. Madrid: Francisco de Robles, 1605.

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De Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quixote, translated and edited by John Rutherford. Penguin Classics, 2003.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Der Antichrist [The Antichrist]. 1895, no. 39.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. "The Anti-Christ." The Twilight of the Idols and Anti-Christ, translated by R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics, 1990, no. 39.

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De Cervantes, Miguel. El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha [The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha]. Madrid: Francisco de Robles, 1605.

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De Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quixote, translated and edited by John Rutherford. Penguin Classics, 2003.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft [Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future]. Leipzig: C. G. Naumann, 1886, ch. 4, no. 134.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil, translated by R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 4, no. 134.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft [Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future]. Leipzig: C. G. Naumann, 1886, ch. 7, no. 217.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil, translated by R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 7, no. 217.