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Huxley, Thomas Henry. Letter to Herbert Spencer. 22 Mar. 1886.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Kubla Khan." Christabel; Kubla Khan, a Vision; The Pains of Sleep. London: John Murray, 1816, I. 1.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Kubla Khan." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works, edited by H. J. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 1.

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Locke, John. Some Thoughts Concerning Education. London: A. and J. Churchill, 1693, sect. 71.

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Locke, John. "Some Thoughts Concerning Education." Some Thoughts Concerning Education and of the Conduct of the Understanding, edited by Ruth W. Grant and Nathan Tarcov. Hackett Publishing Company, 1996, sect. 71.

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Heywood, John. The Proverbs of John Heywood. London: George Bell and Sons, 1874, pt. 2, ch. 5.

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Blake, William. Poem written in his notebook. c. 1792.

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Blake, William. "Abstinence sows sand all over." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.

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Shakespeare, William. The Merchant of Venice. c. 1598, The Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 1.

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

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Plutarch. "Agesilaus." Βίοι Παράλληλοι [Parallel Lives]. c. 2nd century.

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Plutarch. "Agesilaus." Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Roman Lives, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2009.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

Simone Weil

Gravity and Grace

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Weil, Simone. La Pensanteur et la Grace [Gravity and Grace], edited by Gustave Thibon. Plon, 1947.

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Weil, Simone. "To Desire Without an Object." Gravity and Grace, edited by Gustave Thibon, translated by Emma Crawford and Mario van der Ruhr. Routledge, 2002.

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Burns, Robert. Will Ye Go and Marry Katie? c. 1764.

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Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982.

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Arendt, Hannah. "On Violence." Crises of the Republic. Vintage, 1972, ch. 2. Originally published as "A Special Supplement: Reflections on Violence." by The New York Review, 27 Feb. 1969.

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Alcott, Louisa May. An Old-Fashioned Girl. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1869, ch. 13.

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Alcott, Louisa May. An Old-Fashioned Girl. Puffin Books, 1996, ch. 13.

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Blake, William. "Proverbs of Hell." The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. c. 1790.

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Blake, William. "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell." The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, edited by David V. Erdman. University of California Press, 2008.

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Sontag, Susan. Journal entry. 15 Oct. 1973.

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Borges, Jorge Luis. "Deutsches Requiem." Sur, Feb. 1946.

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Borges, Jorge Luis. "Deutsches Requiem." The Aleph and Other Stories, translated by Andrew Hurley. Penguin Classics, 2004.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Devil's Thoughts." Morning Post, 6 Sept. 1799, I. 23.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Devil's Thoughts." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Complete Poems, edited by William Keach. Penguin Classics, 1997, I. 23.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Wealth." The Conduct of Life. Boston: Ticknor & Fields/London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1860.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “Wealth.” The Conduct of Life, edited by Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, and Douglas Emory Wilson. Vol. 6, Belknap Press, 2004.

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Huxley, Aldous. Eyeless in Gaza. Chatto & Windus, 1936, ch. 27.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. Religio Medici. London, 1643, pt. 1, sect. 25.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "Religio Medici (1643)." Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, edited by Kevin Killeen. Oxford University Press, 2018, pt. 1, sect. 25.

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McLaughlin, Mignon. The Neurotic's Notebook. ‎The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1963, ch. 7.