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    L'Homme et la mer


    Homme libre, toujours tu chériras la mer!
    La mer est ton miroir; tu contemples ton âme
    Dans le déroulement infini de sa lame,
    Et ton esprit n'est pas un gouffre moins amer.


    Tu te plais à plonger au sein de ton image;
    Tu l'embrasses des yeux et des bras, et ton coeur
    Se distrait quelquefois de sa propre rumeur
    Au bruit de cette plainte indomptable et sauvage.


    Vous êtes tous les deux ténébreux et discrets:
    Homme, nul n'a sondé le fond de tes abîmes;
    Ô mer, nul ne connaît tes richesses intimes,
    Tant vous êtes jaloux de garder vos secrets!


    Et cependant voilà des siècles innombrables
    Que vous vous combattez sans pitié ni remords,
    Tellement vous aimez le carnage et la mort,
    Ô lutteurs éternels, ô frères implacables!


    Man and the Sea


    Free man, you will always cherish the sea!
    The sea is your mirror; you contemplate your soul
    In the infinite unrolling of its billows;
    Your mind is an abyss that is no less bitter.


    You like to plunge into the bosom of your image;
    You embrace it with eyes and arms, and your heart
    Is distracted at times from its own clamoring
    By the sound of this plaint, wild and untamable.


    Both of you are gloomy and reticent:
    Man, no one has sounded the depths of your being;
    O Sea, no person knows your most hidden riches,
    So zealously do you keep your secrets!


    Yet for countless ages you have fought each other
    Without pity, without remorse,
    So fiercely do you love carnage and death,
    O eternal fighters, implacable brothers!


    Charles Baudelaire

    Fleurs du mal / Flowers of Evil

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    Quote Originally Posted by microrobert View Post
    L'Homme et la mer


    Homme libre, toujours tu chériras la mer!
    La mer est ton miroir; tu contemples ton âme
    Dans le déroulement infini de sa lame,
    Et ton esprit n'est pas un gouffre moins amer.


    Tu te plais à plonger au sein de ton image;
    Tu l'embrasses des yeux et des bras, et ton coeur
    Se distrait quelquefois de sa propre rumeur
    Au bruit de cette plainte indomptable et sauvage.


    Vous êtes tous les deux ténébreux et discrets:
    Homme, nul n'a sondé le fond de tes abîmes;
    Ô mer, nul ne connaît tes richesses intimes,
    Tant vous êtes jaloux de garder vos secrets!


    Et cependant voilà des siècles innombrables
    Que vous vous combattez sans pitié ni remords,
    Tellement vous aimez le carnage et la mort,
    Ô lutteurs éternels, ô frères implacables!


    Man and the Sea


    Free man, you will always cherish the sea!
    The sea is your mirror; you contemplate your soul
    In the infinite unrolling of its billows;
    Your mind is an abyss that is no less bitter.


    You like to plunge into the bosom of your image;
    You embrace it with eyes and arms, and your heart
    Is distracted at times from its own clamoring
    By the sound of this plaint, wild and untamable.


    Both of you are gloomy and reticent:
    Man, no one has sounded the depths of your being;
    O Sea, no person knows your most hidden riches,
    So zealously do you keep your secrets!


    Yet for countless ages you have fought each other
    Without pity, without remorse,
    So fiercely do you love carnage and death,
    O eternal fighters, implacable brothers!


    Charles Baudelaire

    Fleurs du mal / Flowers of Evil
    My favorite poet was heavily influenced by Baudelaire: Verlaine

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    “The strongest one bleed in silence. Have no one applauding their growth. Have no one watching their healing process. They bloom inside”

    “She wears strength & darkness equally well. The girl has always been half goddess, half hell”

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    Quote Originally Posted by Prinses View Post
    “The strongest one bleed in silence. Have no one applauding their growth. Have no one watching their healing process. They bloom inside”

    “She wears strength & darkness equally well. The girl has always been half goddess, half hell”
    nice.. especially the first piece

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    The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts
    - Bertrand Russell

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    Quote Originally Posted by Daco Celtic View Post
    The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts
    - Bertrand Russell
    So very true

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    One I like:

    “Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.”
    ― Nikolai Gogol

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    Not my favourite, but extremely troubling under the current circumstances:

    “The solution” (Die Lösung) by Berthold Brecht, 1952:

    “After the uprising of the 17th June
    The Secretary of the Writers Union
    Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
    Stating that the people
    Had forfeited the confidence of the government

    And could win it back only
    By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier
    In that case for the government
    To dissolve the people
    And elect another?”

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    “Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.”

    Yukio Mishima
    Blue eyed honey in the sun
    Warm, wet and on the run
    On the run, on the run, on the run, on the run,....
    On the run, on the run, on the run, on the run

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    Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

    Aristotle

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