February 2012
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Memories; A Story Of German Love By: Friedrich Max... →
Take my advice, fellow reader, this story is well worth your time and energy.
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“If you had done your calculations properly, there would be a moment when you...”
– Brunonia Barry, The Map of True Places
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“As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day...”
– W. Somerset Maug, The Moon and Sixpence
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“His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in...”
– W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
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“Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of...”
– W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
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“You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a...”
– W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
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“I was eighteen years of age when love opened my eyes with its magic rays and...”
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The Broken Wings Foreword by: Khalil Gibran
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“Things aren’t all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
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“Extinguish my eyes, I’ll go on seeing you.
Seal my ears, I’ll go on...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
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“A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
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THE LINE BETWEEN PROSE AND POETRY
The conversation below takes place between a philosophy teacher and Monsieur Jourdain, the middle-class son of a cloth merchant in the comedy The Bourgeois Gentleman by Molière (1622-1673), French playwright and actor. The play follows Monsieur Jourdain as he is preparing, with the help of tutors, to climb up the social ladder to the aristocracy. Monsieur Jourdain (MJ): I must confide in...
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“We receive but what we give.”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1832)
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“What’s the best thing in the world?
June-rose, by May-dew impearled;
Sweet...”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861), English poet
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““You who never arrived
in my arms, Beloved, who were lost
from the start,
I...”
– Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke
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“It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
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“Love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
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“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of...”
– Winston Churchill
January 2012
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“It is the time you have devoted to your rose that makes your rose so important.”
– The Little Prince By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry(1900–1944)
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“They do not love that do not show their love.”
– William Shakespeare
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“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed!!”
– The Little Prince By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry(1900–1944)
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“Joy, once lost, is pain”
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
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““Human beings do not live forever, Reuven. We live less than the time it...”
– Chaim Potok (The Chosen)
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Love Letter from Elizabeth Barrett to Robert...
Excerpt:
Dear Robert Browning,
…Do you know, when you have told me to think of you, I have been feeling ashamed of thinking of you so much, of thinking of only you—which is too much, perhaps. Shall I tell you? It seems to me, to myself, that no man was ever before to any woman what you are to me—the fullness must be in proportion, you know, to the vacancy…and only I...
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“To love our neighbor as ourselves does not mean that we should love all people...”
– ~ Simone Weil (1909-1943), French philosopher and Christian mystic
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“I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein...”
– Khalil Gibran
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“All too often men are betrayed by the word freedom. And as freedom is counted...”
– Franz Kafka -–“A Report to an Academy” (via maiziyada)
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“One is alone, a total stranger and only an object of curiosity. And so long as...”
– Franz Kafka –“Wedding Preparations in the Country”
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“We press forward.
But this march of time—
consider it a glimpse
of what...”
– ~ Rainer Maria Rilke “Sonette an Orpheus, I, XXII”
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“In science it often happens that scientists say, ‘You know that’s a...”
– Carl Sagan
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“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone...”
– Carl Sagan
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“But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are...”
– Carl Sagan, Broca’s Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
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Love Letter from Winston Churchill to Clementine Churchill (23 January 1935)
Excerpt:
My darling Clemmie,…
you wrote some words very dear to me, about my having enriched your life. I cannot tell you what pleasure this gave me, because I always feel so overwhelmingly in your debt, if there can be accounts in love… What it has been to me to live all these years in your heart and...
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“So that’s how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no...”
– Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
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“Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect...”
– Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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Love Letter from Franz Kafka to Felice Bauer
(11 November 1912)
Excerpt: Fräulein Felice!
I am now going to ask you a favor which sounds quite crazy, and which I should regard as such, were I the one to receive the letter. It is also the very greatest test that even the kindest person could be put to. Well, this is it: Write to me only once a week, so that your letter arrives on...
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“Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back....”
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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“When a man is born…there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight....”
– James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don’t go out of my way to make...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
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“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very...”
– Oscar Wilde