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"It is much easier to wait for a word from a statue made of stone than from a young man from Sparta."
Xenophon, Constitution of the Lacedaemonians (Λακεδαιμονίων Πολιτεία), Chapter 3, #5.

Gestört aber GeiL — Wünsch Dir was
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"The girl who really stood out for me this time had red hair, light-colored, superior eyes that rested on me."
Marcel Proust, Young Girls (75 Feuillets Inédits), 1908; New Yorker, July 5, 2021 [seabirds ready to take flight.]