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Why do men chase women? To get theirs rib back...
aphorism by Viorel Vintila
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When life bit like a viper, love was my cure.
aphorism by Alex Dospian, translated by Irina Rambu
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Our Lord doesn't show himself when you look for him, but when he wants you to see him!
aphorism by Camelia Oprița from Christmas in Rome (25 December 2020), translated by Camelia Opriţa
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Charles Bukowski is a poet who "sings" in his poems the voices of all travelers around the world. It's a cigarette lit over the years, millions bottles with beer, miles and hundreds of romances with motel lovers. It is one of the most emotioning voices you can read.
aphorism by Camelia Oprița from Dowry - WordPress.com (9 March 2009), translated by Camelia Oprița
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This life is a theatrical scene.
aphorism by Camelia Oprița from WordPress.com (2003), translated by Camelia Oprița
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He who dies rests, he who lives remarries.
aphorism by Camelia Oprița from This life is a theatrical scene (January 2001), translated by Camelia Oprița
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For me, the art of writing is a gateway to beauty.
aphorism by Camellia Opriţa from Palimpsest (November 2010), translated by Camellia Oprița
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So as to unveil a poem in its metaphysical matrix we need (how else could it be?) the entire cultural universe that transcendentally contains us.
aphorism by Dumitru Găleșanu from The Lights of Man: the philosophical lyric poetry (5 April 2021), translated by Andreea Moise
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A pelagornis perched on a stone reflects on its existence. Who better than a dying pelagornis can look back on his past life to reflect on what is left of it, to consider the reasons for celebrating both, and yet to be “happy to know that all will be well? ”
aphorism by Camelia Oprița from Ecce homo (December 2007)
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Life is like a highway you always pay wherever you go.
aphorism by Camelia Oprița from Insomnia in black and white (February 2007), translated by Camelia Opriţa
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