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Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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Do not bother to wash your ears for such rumors!

aphorism by Valeriu Butulescu from Immensity of the Point, translated by Eva A. Ziem
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Yes, indeed, I know we are but vain shapes of matter but so sublime as to have invented both God and our own souls.

aphorism by Stephane Mallarme from Letter to Henri Cazalis (28 April 1866), translated by Jean-Michel Maulpoix
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The mighty desert is burning for the love of a blade of grass who shakes her head and laughs and flies away.

aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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Whenever he gets off a plane, he becomes an atheist again.

aphorism by Valeriu Butulescu from Immensity of the Point, translated by Eva A. Ziem
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The idea of it! To bury my thoughts in others' heads!

aphorism by Valeriu Butulescu from Immensity of the Point, translated by Eva A. Ziem
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Live life at the extremes, but do it in moderation.

He has paid too much for this painting to ever say he does not like it.

aphorism by Valeriu Butulescu from Immensity of the Point, translated by Eva A. Ziem
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Can the temple of reason be heart

aphorism by Valeriu Butulescu from Immensity of the Point, translated by Eva A. Ziem
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God comes to me in the dusk of my evening with the flowers from my past kept fresh in his basket.

aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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