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    “It is time for dead languages to be quiet.”
    —Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972)

    “To be one’s own master is to be the slave of self.”
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    “Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.”
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    “Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?”
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