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“Bion used to say that the way to the shades below was easy; he could go there with his eyes shut.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Bion. iii.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2c53285779d0f8aca3a38a498c5541aaef8379d5bf98bd1096d4e855f2918de2
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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