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Events of the day 5 August

Marin Preda1922:

Was born Marin Preda.

Neil Armstrong1930:

Was born Neil Armstrong.

D1960:

Was born Dana Oprita.

Ada Milea1975:

Was born Ada Milea.

Marilyn Monroe1962:

Died Marilyn Monroe.

Friedrich Engels1895:

Died Friedrich Engels.

Richard Burton1984:

Died Richard Burton.

Charles Du Bos1939:

Died Charles Du Bos.

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Distance

is the cog wheel
on the haunted axle of my hearing,
grinding fine the deadened mind
of that unborn god
waiting to be caught
by the earth's blue speed,
and carrying in a handled urn
the plucked heart - ours,
it's beating,...

Nichita StănescuPoems by Nichita Stănescu about speed, memory, mind, tears, earth, god, heart, contentment

Sentimental story

Then we met more often.
I stood at one side of the hour,
you at the other,
like two handles of an amphora.
Only the words flew between us,
back and forth.
You could almost see their swirling,
and suddenly,
I would lower a knee,...

Nichita StănescuPoems by Nichita Stănescu about word, contentment, things, flight

Knot 19

Be aware that I can kill,
that I can crush with my heel the sweet head
of the peaceful rising star,
because of this I've turned to painting houses!

Be aware that I take no pity on myself,
that I mix my blood with birch trees!
I bring...

Nichita StănescuPoems by Nichita Stănescu about attention, painting, heads, blood, celebrity, contentment

Ode (in ancient meter)

Hardly had I thought I should learn to perish;
Ever young, enwrapped in my robe I wandered,
Raising dreamy eyes to the star styled often
Solitude's symbol.

All at once, however, you crossed my pathway -
Suffering - you, painfully...

Mihai EminescuPoems by Mihai Eminescu about contentment, old, sadness, symbol, eyes, solitude, hope, suffering, being, thinking

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Everyone wants to live long, but no one wants to be called old.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about old, olderness

Don't put all you eggs in one basket.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about contentment

For a bad night, a mattress of wine.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about night, wine, bad luck, bad

A good figure is better than a reference letter.

Proverbs and old sayings French about good, good luck

A mother was asked:
"Which of your children do you love the most?"
She replied:
"The sick one until they are well, the absent one until they return, the small one until they grow up, and all of them until I die."

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about love

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

Traditional Irish Curse

Spells and incantations Irish

Traditional Wexford Curse

Spells and incantations British

What grows when it eats, but dies when it drinks?

Fire.

Riddles

If the pills were pleasant, they would not want gilding.

Proverbs and old sayings American

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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...

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...

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