

“Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns, driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy.”
― The Odyssey
― The Odyssey

“I've never been free in my whole life. Inside I've always chased myself. I've become intolerable to myself. I live in a lacerating duality. I'm seemingly free, but I'm a prisoner inside of me.”
― A Breath of Life
― A Breath of Life

“I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.”
― A Breath of Life
― A Breath of Life

“Tell me about a complicated man,
Muse, tell me how he wandered and was lost...
...And where he went, and who he met, the pain
He suffered on the sea, and how he worked
To bring his men back home."
- Emily Wilson Translation of Homer's Odyssey”
― The Odyssey
Muse, tell me how he wandered and was lost...
...And where he went, and who he met, the pain
He suffered on the sea, and how he worked
To bring his men back home."
- Emily Wilson Translation of Homer's Odyssey”
― The Odyssey
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