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Events of the day 22 August

T1939:

Was born Tudor Gherman.

Ion Beldeanu1939:

Was born Ion Beldeanu.

Ray Bradbury1920:

Was born Ray Bradbury.

Tori Amos1963:

Was born Tori Amos.

Stefan Procopiu1972:

Died Stefan Procopiu.

Roger Martin du Gard1958:

Died Roger Martin du Gard.

Charles W. Eliot1926:

Died Charles W. Eliot.

Ignazio Silone1978:

Died Ignazio Silone.

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Thus, like the skin
of a shorn ewe, the day rises.

It is difficult to skin the self from a stone.
It is difficult to skin memory from a Greek.

But why should we talk about these!
After all,
light too has a skin,
light too can be...

Nichita StănescuPoems by Nichita Stănescu about light, hunger, memory, self-control, air, angels, being, word, blood, heart

Love of my life

Songwriters: Freddie Mercury

you've hurt me
You've broken my heart and now you leave me
Love of my life, can't you see?
Bring it back, bring it back
Don't take it away from me, because you don't know
What it means to me

Love of my life, don't leave me...

Freddie MercurySongs by Freddie Mercury

Down Where The Lonely Poplars Grow

Down where the lonely poplars grow
How often have I erred;
My steps that all the neighbours know
You only have not heard.
Towards your window lighted through
How oft my gaze has flown;
A world entire my secret knew
You only have not...

Mihai EminescuPoems by Mihai Eminescu about contentment, night, faith, pray, rightness, value, eyes, end, secret, world

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

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The wish is father to the thought.

Proverbs and old sayings English about thinking, wish

The barrel can only yield the wine that's in it.

Proverbs and old sayings about wine

It's difficult to build a boat plank against the wave.

Proverbs and old sayings

When it's raining and the sun shines -- then a Turk is born.

Proverbs and old sayings Maltese about sun

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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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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