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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce

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Sep 20, 2026 06:51AM

“I'm like you,' he said. 'I remember everything.'

I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when you’re just ready to shut the door of the taxi and have already said goodbye to everyone else and there’s not a thing left to say in this life, then, just this once, turn to me, even in jest, or as an afterthought, which would have meant everything to me when we were together, and, as you did back then, look me in the face, hold my gaze, and call me by your name”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

tags: love, memory

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“I exist as I am, that is enough.”
― Walt Whitman

tags: self-actualization

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“sufficient unto the moment is the appearance of reality.”
― D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

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“O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life,
but exhaust the limits of the possible.”
― Pindar

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“Застенчевый герой

О, мой застенчивый герой,
ты ловко избежал позора.
Как долго я играла роль,
не опираясь на партнера!

К проклятой помощи твоей
я не прибегнула ни разу.
Среди кулис, среди теней
ты спасся, незаметный глазу.

Но в этом сраме и бреду
я шла пред публикой жестокой -
все на беду, все на виду,
все в этой роли одинокой.

О, как ты гоготал, партер!
Ты не прощал мне очевидность
бесстыжую моих потерь,
моей улыбки безобидность.

И жадно шли твои стада
напиться из моей печали.
Одна, одна - среди стыда
стою с упавшими плечами.

Но опрометчивой толпе
герой действительный не виден.
Герой, как боязно тебе!
Не бойся, я тебя не выдам.

Вся наша роль - моя лишь роль.
Я проиграла в ней жестоко.
Вся наша боль - моя лишь боль.
Но сколько боли. Сколько. Сколько.”
― Bella Akhmadulina

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