Random aphorisms

The problem of finitude is not that we know we will die but that for now we are alive.

You see a beautiful woman in the distance and you wish she would be yours. When she is closer, you realize to your sorrow that se is your wife.

aphorism by Valeriu Butulescu from Immensity of the Point, translated by Eva A. Ziem
Added by Lucian Velea
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Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth.

aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
Added by Veronica Serbanoiu
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He used to be so rational that he would resort to the illusions of others.

aphorism by Valeriu Butulescu from Immensity of the Point, translated by Eva A. Ziem
Added by Lucian Velea
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Your part is only to give life for the country. Everything else is our concern.

aphorism by Ninus Nestorovic, translated by Dijana Zdravkovic
Added by Dan Costinaş
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"Who drives me forward like fate?" The Myself striding on my back."

aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
Added by Veronica Serbanoiu
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Put out the lamp when thou wishest. I shall know thy darkness and shall love it.

aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
Added by Veronica Serbanoiu
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What a wonderful world it would be if a man had the heart of a dog. The dog love the master and bites his enemy.

aphorism by Camelia Oprița from Appeal for Infinity (October 2007), translated by Camelia Opriţa
Added by Alexander
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When we love, the blizzard becomes symphony.

The moment of truth never comes, the moment of truth never leaves.

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