February 2012
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On résiste à l’invasion des armées; on ne résiste pas à l’invasion...
– Victor Hugo (February 26, 1802 – May 22, 1885)
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One withstands the invasion of armies; one does not withstand the invasion of...
– Victor Hugo (February 26, 1802 – May 22, 1885)
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Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art—
Not in lone splendour hung...
– John Keats - Bright Star
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive....
– Ezra Pound
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Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate...
– Siddharta - Herman Hesse
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For this was Saint Valentine’s Day, when every bird cometh there to choose...
– Geoffrey Chaucher - Parlement of Foules
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I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do it?
I don’t know, but I feel...
– Gaius Valerius Catullus - Carmina
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Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris.
Nescio, sed fieri sentio et...
– Gaius Valerius Catullus - Carmina
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It is one of the advantages of this world that people can hate and be hated...
– Alessandro Manzoni - The Betrothed
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È uno de’ vantaggi di questo mondo, quello di poter odiare ed esser...
– Alessandro Manzoni - I Promessi Sposi
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Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more...
– William Shakespeare - Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
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Phileas Fogg avait gagné son pari. Il avait accompli en quatre-vingts jours ce...
– Jules Verne - Le Tour du Mond en quatre-vingts jours
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Phileas Fogg had won his wager, and had made his journey around the world in...
– Jules Verne - Around The World in Eighty Days
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A loving heart was better and stronger than wisdom…
– Charles Dickens - David Copperfield
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Forse perché della fatal quïete
tu sei l’immago a me sì cara vieni
o Sera! E...
– Ugo Foscolo - Alla sera [Sonetti]
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E s’aprono i fiori notturni,
nell’ora che penso ai miei cari.
Sono...
– Giovanni Pascoli - Il Gelsomino notturno [Canti di Castelvecchio]
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
– James Joyce
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January 2012
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Alice! a childish story take,
And with a gentle hand
Lay it where...
– Lewis Carroll - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
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…as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman...
– Virginia Woolf - Three Guineas
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O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek...
– William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet (Act I, Scene V)
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Les vraies passions sont égoïstes.
– Stendhal - Le Rouge et le Noir
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E io ch’avea d’error la testa cinta,
dissi: «Maestro, che è quel ch’i’ odo?
e...
– Dante Alighieri, La Divina Commedia [Canto 3]