Random aphorisms
They have not been concerned with my disease ever since they found out that it is not catching.
aphorism by Valeriu Butulescu from Immensity of the Point, translated by Eva A. Ziem
Added by Lucian Velea
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Why do we keep lions within iron cages? For dear someone might steal them.
aphorism by Valeriu Butulescu from Immensity of the Point, translated by Eva A. Ziem
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The fountain of death makes the still water of life play.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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If we had no illusions, what would we do with so much of reality?
aphorism by Octav Bibere
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The poet wind is out over the sea and the forest to seek his own voice.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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I want to grow yet I know the thunderbolt strikes the tallest trees.
aphorism by Valeriu Butulescu from Immensity of the Point, translated by Eva A. Ziem
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I can see mountains of rust. The Iron Age has not yet come to an end.
aphorism by Valeriu Butulescu from Immensity of the Point, translated by Eva A. Ziem
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This rainy evening the wind is restless. I look at the swaying branches and ponder over the greatness of all things.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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To compliment is like walking a tightrope between truth and overstatement.
aphorism by Hermann Bahr, translated by Dan Costinaş
Added by Dan Costinaş
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When the wind blows from the east, the grass leans to the west.
aphorism by Valeriu Butulescu from Immensity of the Point, translated by Eva A. Ziem
Added by Lucian Velea
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