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by Bertrand Russell

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Apr 28, 2012 02:12PM

“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

tags: absurd, beauty, perverse, solitude

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“براي زنده ماندن به 2 خورشيد نياز داريد :
يكي در قلب و يكي در آسمان”
― نادر ابراهيمي

tags: خورشيدها

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“It was like the time her sister suggested she read Emily Dickinson to the tune of Gilligan's Island. Once certain thoughts got into your head, you couldn't get rid of them. ”
― Sarah Dunn, Secrets to Happiness

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“He fumbles at your spirit
As players at the keys
Before they drop full music on;
He stuns you by degrees.

Prepares your brittle substance
For the ethereal blow
by fainter hammers, further heard,
Then nearer, then so slow

Your breath has time to straighten
Your brain to bubble cool,-
Deals one imperial thunderbolt
That scalps your naked soul.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

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“Are you ready for the God that dwells in your heart ?”
― Roxana Jones, The Four Elements of Life

tags: inspirational, personal-growth, question, self-help

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