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Events of the day 5 December

Dumitru Găleşanu1955:

Was born Dumitru Găleşanu.

Christina Georgina Rossetti1830:

Was born Christina Georgina Rossetti.

Thomas Dewar Weldon1896:

Was born Thomas Dewar Weldon.

Walt Disney1901:

Was born Walt Disney.

Alexander Dumas1870:

Died Alexander Dumas.

Zaharia Stancu1974:

Died Zaharia Stancu.

A1983:

Died Alexandru Oprea.

Leonid Dimov1987:

Died Leonid Dimov.

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The hieroglyph

What loneliness
to find no meaning
when there is a meaning

And what loneliness
to be blind in the full light of day,
and deaf, what loneliness,
amidst the swelling of a song

But not to understand
when there is no meaning,
and...

Nichita StănescuPoems by Nichita Stănescu about solitude, blind, silence, night, light, day

Now it's autumn...

Now it's autumn, leaves roam and scatter,
Again the wind flings heavy drops against the glazing;
And you're reading old letters, tattered and fading
And retrace a whole life-time in just one hour.

With sweet trifles you enjoy such...

Mihai EminescuPoems by Mihai Eminescu about old, olderness, autumn, contentment, fairy tales, time, hate, dream, life, eyes

Yesterday

What was yesterday like?
Ah, yesterday was yesterday.
I remember the order of stars:
Three were alike, three were alone
One was fostering a bigger star
With a wing flapping over the sea
Distended from another ocean.
It had no...

NPoems by Nicolae Sirius

Another kind of Mathematics

We know that one times one is one,
but an unicorn times a pear
have no idea what it is.
We know that five minus four is one
but a cloud minus a sailboat
have no idea what it is.
We know that eight
divided by eight is one,
but a...

Nichita StănescuPoems by Nichita Stănescu

Folklore

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If you are praised by a villain, mend your ways at once.

Proverbs and old sayings about criminals, contentment

Spirit is the sword and experience the sharpening stone.

Proverbs and old sayings about spirit, experience

After bad weather comes fine weather.

Proverbs and old sayings Maltese about weather, bad luck, bad

Life is like shopping in a market; when you finish, you go home.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about end, stores, home, life, contentment

Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about happiness

There are 3 simple rules in life:
- don't promise when you're happy,
- don't answer when you're nervous,
- don't decide when you're angry.

Proverbs and old sayings British about life, rules, promise, happiness, contentment

Man's law changes with his understanding of man. Only the laws of the spirit remain always the same.

Proverbs and old sayings Croatian about spirit, law, man

Who came back from the grave and told the story?

Proverbs and old sayings Tunisian

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Bovarism

Bovarism

Bovarism is the term that denotes a person's state of discontent towards its own existence, constructing a fictitious personality to match his ideals. This alter ego of the person functions as a protection from too cruel world for which is not...

Phoenix bird

Phoenix bird

Quite often we hear around us being used the expression - "Reborn from the ashes as the Phoenix bird" and perhaps many times, we fail to make the connection between the depicted situation and expression – Phoenix bird. The word originates in the...

A priori - a posteriori

A priori - a posteriori

A priori - the term means before any experience, independent from any experience, from the earlier. This term is in close relationship with its opposite a posteriori , from experience, from the later. Both expressions are used in Philosophy and...

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