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Events of the day 16 October

1930:

Was born Theodor Manescu.

Oscar Wilde1854:

Was born Oscar Wilde.

Eugene O'Neill1888:

Was born Eugene O'Neill.

Gunter Grass1927:

Was born Gunter Grass.

Gaston Bachelard1962:

Has died Gaston Bachelard.

Constantin Nottara1935:

Has died Constantin Nottara.

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Famous quotes

Oscar Wilde

When bad Americans die, they go to America...

Quote by Oscar Wilde about haven, americans, bad luck, bad, death
Oscar Wilde

I have nothing to declare except my genuis

Quote by Oscar Wilde about genius, nothing
Oscar Wilde

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Quote by Oscar Wilde about wisdom
Oscar Wilde

I am not young enough to know everything.

Quote by Oscar Wilde about knowledge
Dumitru Găleşanu

From the point of view of light, nothing can reach its...

Quote by Dumitru Găleşanu about light
Dumitru Găleşanu

Infinite portals of worlds are opening, movement by...

Quote by Dumitru Găleşanu about light
Dumitru Găleşanu

Love had nestled in our souls, facing the opposing...

Quote by Dumitru Găleşanu about infinite
Dumitru Găleşanu

The movement of matter perpetually accompanies us with...

Quote by Dumitru Găleşanu about memory
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 New Tower of Babel

English version by Gabriela Pachia

(1)...Into the Last State of the Matter...

The striated sky of my holy mushroom,
myriapoda like flashes of lightning – and the same
chromium ants
and the milk foam, among the planets,
and the white water lilies of the darkness
on the...

Ion Pachia-TatomirescuPoems by Ion Pachia-Tatomirescu about self-control, celebrity, tradition, flight, state, stars, olderness, light, eyes, blood

Knot 19

Be aware that I can kill,
that I can crush with my heel the sweet head
of the peaceful rising star,
because of this I've turned to painting houses!

Be aware that I take no pity on myself,
that I mix my blood with birch trees!
I bring...

Nichita StănescuPoems by Nichita Stănescu about attention, painting, heads, blood, celebrity

The Lake

Water lilies load all over
The blue lake amid the woods,
That imparts, while in white circles
Startling, to a boat its moods.

And along the strands I'm passing
Listening, waiting, in unrest,
That she from the reeds may issue
And...

Mihai EminescuPoems by Mihai Eminescu about water, fall, feelings, lie, moon, light

The ascension of words

Thus, like the skin
of a shorn ewe, the day rises.

It is difficult to skin the self from a stone.
It is difficult to skin memory from a Greek.

But why should we talk about these!
After all,
light too has a skin,
light too can be...

Nichita StănescuPoems by Nichita Stănescu about light, hunger, memory, self-control, air, being, word, blood, heart, love

Folklore

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I gave the mouse a hole and she is become my heir.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

Every smart man is an ignoramus who abuses his ignorance.

Proverbs and old sayings Cameroonian about intelligence, ignorance, man

All ask if a man be rich, no one if he be good.

Proverbs and old sayings English about wealth, good, good luck, man

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Proverbs and old sayings English

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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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...

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...