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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.  ~Oscar Wilde~ Click to advance

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Lo PerdidoDonde estara mi vida, la que pudo Haber sido y no fue, la venturosa O la de triste horror, esa otra cosa Que pudo ser la espada o el escudo Y que no fue?.... ~Jorge Luis Borges~ Translation please?

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And on the 6th day, God created integrated circuits....'

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"Flaubert's Parrot" There is a plaque on the front wall. “Gustave Flaubert, French writer, 1821-1880, lived here while-“ but then the letters shrink impossibly, as if on some optician’s chart. We walk closer. We look in at a window. Yes, it’s true; despite the carnage some delicate things have survived. A clock still ticks. Prints on the wall remind us that art was once appreciated here. A parrot’s perch catches the eye. We look for the parrot. Where is the parrot? We still hear its voice; but all we can see is a bare wooden perch. The bird has flown. ~Julian Barnes~

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“Der Mannohne Eigenschaften" The disappointment with the lack of recognition and his poverty made Musil a bitter and lonely person. He died in obscurity in Switzerland, where only a namestone on the cemetery remains of him. "Daß du nicht berühmt bist, ist natürlich; daß du aber nicht genug Leser zum Leben hast, ist schändlich."  ( That one is not famous is only natural: that one has not enough readers to live is a shame!)

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" Arthur & George" Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh, Scotland. *** “When I was told about George’s story, I started thinking about why some people are remembered forever, and others are not at all” ~Julian Barnes~

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Pleasures… “The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”

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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.” ~Oscar Wilde~

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Caprices... The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer. ~Oscar Wilde~

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Books... A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

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The Butterfly Hunter Vladimir Nabokov (b. 1899 St. Petersburg, Russia; d. 1977 Montreux, Switzerland) was not only a brilliant author but an avid lepidopterist. He took great pride in his scientific work and wrote extensively about his research. He caught his first butterfly in 1906, at the age of 7.

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Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know." ~Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English philosopher, mathematician.~

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Anna Karenina "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." ~Leo Tolstoy~***How could I dare to disagree with Tolstoy? How could I dare? Nevertheless...

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A worn out book of poems... Are You There? Each lover has some theory of his own About the difference between the ache Of being with his love, and being alone: Why what, when dreaming, is dear flesh and bone That really stirs the senses, when awake, Appears a simulacrum of his own. Narcissus disbelieves in the unknown; He cannot join his image in the lake So long as he assumes he is alone. The child, the waterfall, the fire, the stone, Are always up to mischief, though, and take The universe for granted as their own. The elderly, like Proust, are always prone To think of love as a subjective fake; The more they love, the more they feel alone. Whatever view we hold, it must be shown Why every lover has a wish to make Some kind of otherness his own: Perhaps, in fact, we never are alone. ~Wystan Hugh Auden~

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Salome ~Oscar Wilde Salome's Dancing-Lesson She that begs a little boon (Heel and toe! Heel and toe!) Little gets- and nothing, soon. (No, no, no! No, no, no!) She that calls for costly things Priceless finds her offerings- What's impossible to kings? (Heel and toe! Heel and toe!) Veils are woven to be dropped. (One, two, three! One, two, three!) Aging eyes are slowest stopped. (Quietly! Quietly!) She whose body's young and cool Has no need of dancing-school- Scratch a king and find a fool! (One, two, three! One, two, three!) ~Dorothy Parker~ “

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"Religion and science" "Science can only determine what is, but not what shall be, and beyond its realm, value judgments remain indispensable. Religion, on the other hand, is concerned only with evaluating human thought and actions; it is not qualified to speak of real facts and the relationships between them." ~Albert Einstein~

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Pikovaya Dama" "I loved you: and, it may be, from my soul The former love has never gone away, But let it not recall to you my dole; I wish not to sadden you in any way. I loved you silently, without hope, fully, In diffidence, in jealousy, in pain; I loved you so tenderly and truly, As let you else be loved by any man." ~Aleksandr Pushkin~

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The desperate poetry of transforming written words in smoke signals

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"The Three Sisters" Time will pass, and we shall go away for ever, and we shall be forgotten, our faces will be forgotten, our voices, and how many there were of us; but our sufferings will pass into joy for those who will live after us, happiness and peace will be established upon earth, and they will remember kindly and bless those who have lived before. ~ANTON CHEKOV

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Light approach to science... If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. ~George Bernard Shaw~

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Être ange C'est étrange Dit l'ange Être âne C'est étrâne Dit l'âne Cela ne veut rien dire Dit l'ange en haussant les ailes Pourtant Si étrange veut dire quelque chose Étrâne est plus étrange qu'étrange Dit l'âne Étrange est Dit l'ange en tapant des pieds Étranger vous-même Dit l'âne Et il s'envole. ~Jacques Prévert~ Translation please…?

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La Dicha "El que abraza a una mujer es Adàn. La mujer es Eva. Todo sucede por primera vez. He visto una cosa blanca en el cielo. Me dicen que es la luna, pero qué puedo hacer con una palabra y con una mitologia?..." ~Jorge Luis Borges~ ( Who embraces a woman is Adam. The woman is Eve. All happens for the very first time. I have seen something white in the sky. They told me it's the moon, but what can I do with a word and a mythology?)

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Trinity