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ART, WORDS & MUSIC · SELECTED 6 Sep 2026

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Text, folio 73 (verso) from a Gandavyuha-sutra (Scripture of the Supreme Array)Text, folio 73 (verso) from a Gandavyuha-sutra (Scripture of the Supreme Array) · Artist unknown · 1000–1100s
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Whatever is much thought about is at last thought suspicious.

From Thus Spake Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche · German

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The Celestial Weaver

The Celestial Weaver, by T`ung Han-ching. Translated by L. Cranmer-Byng.

Chinese · English

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Nobel Prize in Literature · 2012

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