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Two of the best book quotes about literal
#1
“All that was metaphorical has become literal, and the children are children, and the terrors are terrifying.”
author
Boris Pasternak
book
Doctor Zhivago
character
Misha
concepts
literal
metaphor
terrifying
#2
“For what can be more noble than to slay oneself? Not literally. Not with a blade in the guts. But to extinguish the selfish self within, that part which looks only to its own preservation, to save its own skin. ”
author
Steven Pressfield
book
Gates of Fire
concepts
self-preservation
extinguish
literal
warriors
war
virtue
Valor
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