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on Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Angela da Foligno: Letter 2
mysticism,
foligno,
angela
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_of_Foligno [August 1300] My son [Brother Arnaldo], I desire for you with my whole being that you be a friend and pursue suffering and be abandoned by every temporal and spiritual consolation. This is my comfort. I pray it becomes yours. I do not intend to...
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on Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Seneca Epigram 19: Noli Me Tangere
noli,
seneca,
epigram,
tangere
Whoever you are, enemy (do I say your name? Sorrow thinks all things!) Who trample my remains And not content With such defilement, Also hurl cruel barbs At a dead man?s head: Believe me, Nature Has respect for tombs. Shades protect their graves. Believe it, Livor, The gods are speak...
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on Friday, July 6, 2012
Luigi Pirandello: Tanino and Tanotto
short,
story,
tanotto,
pirandello,
tanino
From the farmers going to town every day with their mules loaded with farm products, Baron Mauro Ragona knew that his wife was not feeling well and that now even his son was seriously ill. It didn?t matter about his wife. Mistaken marriage, undertaken because of foolish youthful ambitions. Son ...
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on Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Sebastien Chamfort: Man and Society # 12
chamfort,
society,
man,
individuals
Do you want to see how society breaks down people at every point? Look at what they become after they have undergone its long influence, that is to say in their old age. See what an old courtier is, an old priest, an old judge, an old official, an old doctor, etc.
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on Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Giacomo Leopardi Thoughts XIII: Anniversaries
thoughts,
leopardi,
anniversaries
A fair and lovely illusion is that which gives anniversaries of certain events, that truly have as little to do with them as any other calendar day, special connections with them, so that what is past seems to return and live again on those days, and to be before us. Thus is sadness alleviated in...
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on Thursday, June 21, 2012
Giovanni Verga: Spring
short,
story,
verga,
spring
Hardly had Paolo arrived in Milan with his music under his arm, at that age when the sun shone for him every day, and all women were beautiful, when he met the Princess. The young persons at the store gave her that title because she had a gentile look and delicate hands; but above all because she...
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