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Events of the day 21 November

1933:

Was born Anghel Dumbraveanu.

Isaac Bashevis Singer1902:

Was born Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Jim Bishop1907:

Was born Jim Bishop.

2006:

Has died Zoia Ceauşescu.

Quentin Crisp1999:

Has died Quentin Crisp.

Heinrich von Kleist1811:

Has died Heinrich von Kleist.

Henri Lacordaire1861:

Has died Henri Lacordaire.

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Famous quotes

François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire

God gave us the gift of life, it is up to us to give...

Quote by François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire about god, gifts, life
François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to...

Quote by François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire about god
François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire

If God wouldn't existed, He should be invented.

Quote by François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire about god
François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only...

Quote by François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire about people, charity, money, man
Jerome

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is...

Quote by Jerome about motivation

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

Quote by Charles Swindoll about life
Eleanor Roosevelt

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt about motivation
Dumitru Găleşanu

Literary temponaut from the rebellious worlds of man, I...

Quote by Dumitru Găleşanu about word
William Blake

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the...

Quote by William Blake about philosophy, sleep, night
Henry Ford

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is...

Quote by Henry Ford about succes, progress, beginning
Robert Louis Stevenson

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the...

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson about judgment, judges, day
Samuel Beckett

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Quote by Samuel Beckett about advice




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The hieroglyph

What loneliness
to find no meaning
when there is a meaning

And what loneliness
to be blind in the full light of day,
and deaf, what loneliness,
amidst the swelling of a song

But not to understand
when there is no meaning,
and...

Nichita StănescuPoems by Nichita Stănescu about solitude, blind, silence, night, light, day

Sleepy birds

All those sleepy birds
Now tired from flight
Hide among the leaves
Good-night!

Only the spring whispers
When the wood sleeps silently;
Even flowers in the gardens
Sleep peacefully!

Swans glide to their nest
Sheltering among...

Mihai EminescuPoems by Mihai Eminescu about night, good, good luck, garden, flowers, harmony, sleep, dream, flight, peace

Sentimental story

Then we met more often.
I stood at one side of the hour,
you at the other,
like two handles of an amphora.
Only the words flew between us,
back and forth.
You could almost see their swirling,
and suddenly,
I would lower a knee,...

Nichita StănescuPoems by Nichita Stănescu about word, things, flight

The shadow

Your burnt offspring's smoke will wind
Peacefully towards the skies
Only if you bear in mind
That when you go to the sun,
Your dark shadow is behind.

Silent slave whom the grim lord
Summons by a silent gesture,
He takes heed,...

George CoșbucPoems by George Coșbuc about shadow, smoke, sun, nothing, flight, mind, dark, light, eyes, fairy tales

Folklore

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You will find enough of brushna in every wood to burn it.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

A Quarter of an hour is worth more than a thousand gold coins.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

The crow flies sky high and lands on a pig.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about sky

You are like dew even before it rains.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian

Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about happiness

There are 3 simple rules in life:
- don't promise when you're happy,
- don't answer when you're nervous,
- don't decide when you're angry.

Proverbs and old sayings British about life, rules, promise, happiness

Man's law changes with his understanding of man. Only the laws of the spirit remain always the same.

Proverbs and old sayings Croatian about spirit, law, man

Who came back from the grave and told the story?

Proverbs and old sayings Tunisian

Traditional Irish Curse

Spells and incantations Irish

Traditional Wexford Curse

Spells and incantations British

What grows when it eats, but dies when it drinks?

Fire.

Riddles

If the pills were pleasant, they would not want gilding.

Proverbs and old sayings American


Literary cenacle

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Dictionary, Enciclopedia

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Bovarism

Bovarism

Bovarism is the term that denotes a person's state of discontent towards its own existence, constructing a fictitious personality to match his ideals. This alter ego of the person functions as a protection from too cruel world for which is not...

Phoenix bird

Phoenix bird

Quite often we hear around us being used the expression - "Reborn from the ashes as the Phoenix bird" and perhaps many times, we fail to make the connection between the depicted situation and expression – Phoenix bird. The word originates in the...

A priori - a posteriori

A priori - a posteriori

A priori - the term means before any experience, independent from any experience, from the earlier. This term is in close relationship with its opposite a posteriori , from experience, from the later. Both expressions are used in Philosophy and...