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After the Rain Stopped Pounding (Sau Mua Thoi Na Dan)

by Bruce Weigl

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The Old Gringo

by Carlos Fuentes

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Jul 15, 2024 06:39PM

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The Homestead Strike of 1892 (Regional)

by Arthur Burgoyne

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“Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

tags: de-profundis, god, ideal, oscar-wilde, prophecy, religion

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“The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation, that when I think upon it I scarce know whether I wake or sleep.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer

tags: love

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“To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

tags: emotions, feelings

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“while to propose to be a better man is a piece of unscientific cant, to have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered. And such I think I have become.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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“All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

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