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Questions regarding the meaning of certain terms or phrases used in a work of literature. If your question concerns the symbolic significance of something whose surface meaning is clear, use the [symbolism] tag instead. Please add specific tags as well: for the author (if known), the language (if not English), and either the work itself (if long) or the [poetry] or [short-stories] tags for short works.

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What did Aciman mean by "Love, which exempts no one who's loved from loving"?

In Andre Aciman's Call Me by Your Name, while Elio describes the events of the summer, he refers to a quote by Francesca he remembers from Inferno. "Love, which exempts no one who's loved from loving …
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What did Tara Westover mean by comparing her childhood family accident with "choices coalesc...

What was Tara Westover trying to imply when she compared the accident her family suffered in her childhood with this? Choices, numberless as grains of sand, had layered and compressed, coalescing int …
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