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Events of the day 7 November

Albert Camus1913:

Was born Albert Camus.

Marie Curie1867:

Was born Marie Curie.

1938:

Was born Eliza Botezatu.

1961:

Was born Adrian Ionescu.

Leonard Cohen2016:

Has died Leonard Cohen.

Will Durant1981:

Has died Will Durant.

Eleanor Roosevelt1962:

Has died Eleanor Roosevelt.

Eric Linklater1974:

Has died Eric Linklater.

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Famous quotes

Albert Camus

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be...

Quote by Albert Camus about love
Albert Camus

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to...

Quote by Albert Camus about law, nature, rules, instinct
Albert Camus

When you have really exhausted an experience you always...

Quote by Albert Camus about experience, love
Albert Camus

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and...

Quote by Albert Camus about philosophy, day, god
Dumitru Găleşanu

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

Quote by Dumitru Găleşanu about word
Dumitru Găleşanu

The mist has been removed from my eyes, under the icon of...

Quote by Dumitru Găleşanu about love
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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Writings

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Venus and Madonna

Oh, ideal lost in night-mists of a vanished universe:
People who would think in legends - all a world who spoke in verse;
I can see and think and hear you - youthful scout which gently nods
From a sky with different starlights, other Edens,...

Mihai EminescuPoems by Mihai Eminescu about woman, eyes, celebrity, smile, heart, magic, spirit, god, thinking, youth

In the Nature of Joy, in the Geometry of Your Snowflake

Poetry and Tears

It seems a ballet of bridal cherry blossom, breezing April’s
photons, my Sweetheart: it seems to snow innocently, rustlingly,
and the chorale of brownish leaves of the secular, imperial
platans resounds, upon the pilgrimaged golden penguins...

01 feb 2010
Ion Pachia-TatomirescuPoems by Ion Pachia-Tatomirescu about joy, nature, home, language, celebrity, house, poetry, kiss, tears, stars

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 Keynote

The bone is a joy only when it's the forehead bone,
when it protects, does not disjoin,
as are the alkaline vertebrae
from the difficult depths of the flesh and the wedding.
I'm resigned to losing the habit
of my manner of being,
but...

Nichita StănescuPoems by Nichita Stănescu about habits, being, body, time, hunger, marriage, solitude, death, joy, celebrity

Folklore

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Women and cats in the house, men and dogs in the street.

Proverbs and old sayings about home, house, man

Don't rejoice over him that goes, before you see him that comes.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

A triple rope is not easily broken.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

He who stands still in the mud sticks in it.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

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


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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...

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...

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...