February 2012
31 posts
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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)
Feb 26th
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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)
Feb 26th
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Feb 25th
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Feb 23rd
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Feb 22nd
11 notes
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 21st
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Feb 21st
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“Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung...”
– John Keats - Bright Star
Feb 20th
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Feb 19th
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“Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive....”
– Ezra Pound
Feb 19th
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“Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate...”
– Siddharta - Herman Hesse
Feb 16th
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“For this was Saint Valentine’s Day, when every bird cometh there to choose...”
– Geoffrey Chaucher - Parlement of Foules
Feb 14th
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Feb 14th
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Feb 12th
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Feb 11th
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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
Feb 10th
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“Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et...”
– Gaius Valerius Catullus - Carmina
Feb 10th
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“It is one of the advantages of this world that people can hate and be hated...”
– Alessandro Manzoni - The Betrothed
Feb 10th
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“È uno de’ vantaggi di questo mondo, quello di poter odiare ed esser...”
– Alessandro Manzoni - I Promessi Sposi
Feb 10th
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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?
Feb 9th
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Feb 8th
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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
Feb 8th
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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
Feb 8th
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“A loving heart was better and stronger than wisdom…”
– Charles Dickens - David Copperfield
Feb 7th
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Feb 7th
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Feb 6th
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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]
Feb 6th
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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]
Feb 3rd
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“There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.”
– James Joyce
Feb 2nd
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Feb 2nd
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