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In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way

by Marcel Proust

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by Joseph Roth

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“Reasons get forgotten.”
― Alessandro Baricco, Silk

tags: forgetting, forgotten, reasons, truth

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“Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatable… More briefly – a word is translatable, its sound is not.”
― Marina Tsvetaeva, Сводные тетради

tags: aphorisms, russian-poetry, tsvetaeva, wisdom

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“I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.”
― Alessandro Baricco, Ocean Sea

tags: love

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“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”
― Gilda Radner

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“Ξέρω: κηρύγματα καὶ ρητορεῖες πάλι, θὰ πεῖς.
Ἔ ναὶ λοιπόν! Κηρύγματα καὶ ρητορεῖες.

Σὰν πρόκες πρέπει νὰ καρφώνονται οἱ λέξεις

Νὰ μὴν τὶς παίρνει ὁ ἄνεμος.”
― Μανόλης Αναγνωστάκης

tags: poetry

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