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CHAPTER ONE Henri found himself looking at the sky again – a clear, black crystal dome overhead. It was difficult for the mind to conceive of hundreds of planes shattering that black crystalling silence! And suddenly, words began tumbling
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How beautiful are these first sentences?!
“Трябва да си набавим ум или въже (aut mentem parandam, aut laqueum)”
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“O what a threadbare life we lead,
how pitifully poor the words of joy!
All has been seen, all will be seen again,
only the moment of recognition is sweet.”
― Poems of Osip Mandelstam
how pitifully poor the words of joy!
All has been seen, all will be seen again,
only the moment of recognition is sweet.”
― Poems of Osip Mandelstam
“I have the strangest thoughts in my head, maybe I should not write them down.”
― Muleum
― Muleum
“I really have had little to do with them, for I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
― A Confederacy of Dunces
“i sink my life into your mouth,
i hear the murmurs of space,
and infinity seems
to have emptied itself over me”
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i hear the murmurs of space,
and infinity seems
to have emptied itself over me”
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