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The Shop on Main Street (Modern Czech Classics)

by Ladislav Grosman

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by Michal Ajvaz

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by László Krasznahorkai

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“Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

tags: patience, taoism, understand

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“I am not from east or west
not up from the ground
or out of the ocean
my place is placeless
a trace of the traceless
I belong to the beloved”
― Rumi

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“was coming to that troubled twilight time, a time of regrets that resemble hopes, of hopes that resemble regrets, when youth is past but old age has not yet come.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

tags: old-age, regrets

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“The most dangerous worldviews are the worldviews of those who have never viewed the world.”
― Alexander von Humboldt

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“The cock crowing in the milky dawn thinks its call raises the sun; the child howling in a closed room thinks its cries open the door. But the sun and the mother go their own way, following the laws of their beings. Those who see us, even though we cannot see ourselves, opened the door for us, answering our puerile calculations, our unsteady desires, and our awkward efforts with a generous welcome.”
― René Daumal, Mount Analogue

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