December 2011
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October 2011
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I Will Take You Forever (Duet With Denise Laurel)... →
There will never be anyone else in my heart but you…
“Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to...”
– Alberto Manguel, A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader’s Reflections on a Year of Books (via excessivebookshelf)
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August 2011
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Is Freedom of Speech an Absolute or a Relative...
I used to hear people say this popular justification, “I’ll say what I like. It is a free country.” This claim has fallen out of fashion, replaced in UK with “I’m entitled to state my own opinion” and in the US with “I’m only exercising my (Constitutional) right to free speech.
An interesting word -‘right’, don’t you think?
In the United States, people are fond of appealing to the...
“Oh well, memories,” said I. “Yes, even remembering in itself is sad, yet how...”
– Description of a Struggle,Franz Kafka : The Complete Stories (1971)
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“Those who suffer in love are, as it is said of certain invalids, their own...”
– Marcel Proust (via atomos)
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“In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a...”
– Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey (via fabula)