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Even Socrates
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Barack Obama: At a time when people are understand...
Hello Kitty
Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road...
“Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted ap...
you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices
The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole...
The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. A...
Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into...
Hitler didn’t steal the power, his people voted fo...
120 court cases have been caught with AI hallucina...
When nothing in society deserves respect, we shoul...
Modern man does not love, but seeks refuge in love...
Being a reactionary is not about believing in cert...
There is an illiteracy of the soul which no diplom...
Modern history is the dialogue between two men: on...
To live with lucidity a simple, quiet, discreet li...
The freer man believes he is, the easier it is to ...
The anarchy that threatens a degrading society is ...
Man matures when he stops believing that politics ...
I distrust every idea that doesn’t seem obsolete a...
The taste of the masses is characterized not by th...
Conformism and non-conformism are symmetrical expr...
In an age in which the media broadcast countless p...
Dying societies accumulate laws like dying men acc...
Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal. ...
Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the...
New Backstroke with Shoulder Roll
Staff Meeting
3:30 AM Migraine
Write for other people, but don’t listen to them t...
man and banana
“Not just the beating. The words. 'Boris, you're s...
“You are like a nearsighted person who can see the...
It takes time and humility to relax enough to trul...
“When you show yourself to the world and display ...
"Nothing of importance is ever achieved without di...
I wrote because silence became louder than their l...
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions t...
We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's i...
"Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence o...
People empty me. I have to get away to refill. Buk...
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; ...
“Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free b...
“The only people I would care to be with now are a...
"The world we see that seems so insane is the res...
At the bottom of the modern man there is always a...
“Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go ...
“As the years pass, the number of those we can com...
“We live in a world ruled by fictions of...
“All over the world major museums have bowed to th...
Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a li...
“Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge numb...
“I believe in the power of the imagination to rem...
“We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be...
"You will learn at your own expense that in the lo...
Carl Sagan: If something can be destroyed by the t...
Strangers
Is AI Enhancing Education or Replacing It? Technol...
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Patriot: A Memoir is a posthumous non-fiction book...
Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of...
Gorgeous Breads
Man swims 62 miles around Martha’s Vineyard to pre...
A thousand saplings have started growing in the bi...
Crimson Courage
“You see, in my view a writer is a write...
What we do might be done in solitude and with gre...
I am going to be rather hard-nosed and say that if...
The Creative Adult is the Child Who Survived
I meet my characters the way I encounter people in...
The Dissident: Alexey Navalny: Profile of a Politi...
The Orange Menace is Imitating Putin
The problem is you’re afraid to acknowledge your o...
Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the hu...
Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart...
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a ...
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllabl...
It takes me out of my own limited, chosen world.
This was why she could not sleep.
“Read the best writers from all different periods;...
The Return of Odysseus by George Bilgere
Darya Navalnya
Like Riding a Bicycle poem by George Bilgere
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own so...
All that happens to us, including our humiliations...
We've been in a POLITICAL PANDEMIC since the MONST...
I love this poem. It's a painting with words.
Learning the Quirks
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When the Seasons Change (with Pollen & Full Moon)
poet Ezra Pound once said, “Literature is news tha...
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Saturday, May 03, 2025
At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy. Federico García Lorca
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