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Events of the day 27 August

D1942:

Was born Dumitru Dinulescu.

S1951:

Was born Silviu Claudiu Mihai.

Valeriu Stancu1950:

Was born Valeriu Stancu.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel1770:

Was born Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

Cesare Pavese1950:

Died Cesare Pavese.

Gracie Allen1964:

Died Gracie Allen.

James Thomson1748:

Died James Thomson.

Eusebiu Camilar1965:

Died Eusebiu Camilar.

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Dimitrie BolintineanuDimitrie BolintineanuRodica Ojog-BrașoveanuRodica Ojog-BrașoveanuJohn Greenleaf WhittierJohn Greenleaf WhittierGellu DorianGellu DorianIon PillatIon PillatAntonie cel MareAntonie cel Mare
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Season's end

I was so very aware
that the afternoon was dying in the domes,
and all around me sounds froze,
turned to winding pillars.

I was so very aware
that the undulant drift of scents
was collapsing into darkness,
and it seemed I had never...

Nichita StănescuPoems by Nichita Stănescu about feelings, season, contentment, end, moon, face

Adolescents on the sea

This sea is covered with adolescents
learning to walk on waves, upright,
sometimes resting their arms on the currents,
sometimes gripping a stiff beam of sunlight.
I lie on the broad beach, an angled shape, cut perfectly,
and I ponder...

Nichita StănescuPoems by Nichita Stănescu about progress, lie, infinite

Now it's autumn...

Now it's autumn, leaves roam and scatter,
Again the wind flings heavy drops against the glazing;
And you're reading old letters, tattered and fading
And retrace a whole life-time in just one hour.

With sweet trifles you enjoy such...

Mihai EminescuPoems by Mihai Eminescu about old, olderness, autumn, contentment, fairy tales, time, hate, dream, life, eyes

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, angels, being, word, blood, heart

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We do in haste what we repent at leisure.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Stand so much until grass grows under your foot.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

It's a free country.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about country

There is no fireside like your own fireside

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

A mother was asked:
"Which of your children do you love the most?"
She replied:
"The sick one until they are well, the absent one until they return, the small one until they grow up, and all of them until I die."

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about love

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, contentment

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

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...

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