Random aphorisms
Kvass is the Russian Coca-Cola.
aphorism by Michelle Rosenberg
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In a turning point for humanity, Columbus received a visa to America.
aphorism by Octav Bibere
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There are many who abandon the life boat when they see what shore it is heading for.
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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Men are cruel, but Man is kind.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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Rest belongs to the work as the eyelids to the eyes.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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I accept thorny flowers, but I loathe flower-shaped thorns.
aphorism by Valeriu Butulescu from Immensity of the Point, translated by Eva A. Ziem
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Where the common sense is beyond recall, the aphorism gains in meaning.
aphorism by Hasier Agirre, translated by Dan Costinaş
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Hand written, but foot corrected.
aphorism by Ramon Eder, translated by Dan Costinaş
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The dry river-bed finds no thanks for its past.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
Added by Veronica Serbanoiu
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