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"... it is Hellas, for whom I must sacrifice you whether I will or not; to this necessity I bow my head; for her freedom must be preserved ..." [Agamemnon to Iphigenia] --Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis
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Mists, like evil spirits, shrink and shrivel Vanish into thin air The sun pierces them through and through It lights the recesses of cavelike shrines Flashes on the brass and copper vessels of bathers in the river Pure grace Once the breath goes out, it…
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I don't believe in miracles and they happen everyday i dont believe in jesus but im praying anyway --Dave Gahan
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All this talk... There's no need to discuss loneliness. It's a waste of time. [ Ester in Tystnaden (The Silence), a film by Ingmar Bergman, 1963 ]
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Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized…
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I dare you, to be real To touch a flickering flame The pangs of dark delight Don't cower in night fright Don't back away just yet From destinations set I dare you to be proud To dare to shout aloud For convictions that you feel Like sound from bells to p…
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Sempre caro mi fu quest'ermo colle E questa siepe che da tanta parte De'll ultimo orrizonte il guarde esclude. Ma sedendo e mirando interminati Spazi di là da quella, e sovrumani Silenzi, e profondissima quiete, Io nel pensier mi fingo, ove per poco Il co…
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. Blue protects white from innocence Blue drags black with it Blue is darkness made visible --Derek Jarman
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... Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time. Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way The time is gone, the song is over, Thought I'd something more to s…
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Empty doctrine shed evidently nothing than light in no time at all outside is a new day - somewhere just not here - nowhere -- einstuerzende neaubauten (transl. from German)
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Through the death-like lighting of our destiny, pointlessness becomes visible. No moral rules, no effort whatsoever are á priori justifiable in the face of the gory mathematics that command our human condition. --Albert Camus
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ELENCO MORTI List of Victims; in parentheses date of birth; date of dead is for all this innocent people the same: October 9, 1963 ---- A ---- Accamilesi Luigi (1963) Adami Egidio (1928) Adolfo Riccardo (1952) Adolfo Roberta (1951) Aldrigo Ada (1…
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L'inferno dei viventi non è qualcosa che sarà; se ce n'è uno, è quello che è già qui, l'inferno che abitiamo tutti i giorni, che formiamo stando insieme. Due modi ci sono per non soffrirne. Il primo riesce facile a molti: accettare l'inferno e diventarne…