V noci jsem snil, že jsem motýlem

„V noci jsem snil, že jsem motýlem, a teď nevím, zda jsem člověkem, který snil, že je motýlem, nebo zda jsem motýlem, kterému se zdá, že je člověkem“

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14. Květen 2008

(1850)

IN THE consideration of the faculties and impulses- of the prima mobilia of the human soul, the phrenologists have failed to make room for a propensity which, although obviously existing as a radical, primitive, irreducible sentiment, has been equally overlooked by all the moralists who have preceded them.
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14. Květen 2008

(1850)

I NEVER knew anyone so keenly alive to a joke as the king was. He seemed to live only for joking. To tell a good story of the joke kind, and to tell it well, was the surest road to his favor. Thus it happened that his seven ministers were all noted for their accomplishments as jokers.
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14. Květen 2008

(1850)

Chacun a ses vertus.
CREBILLON'S Xerxes.
 
ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES is very generally looked upon as the Gog of the prophet Ezekiel. This honor is, however, more properly attributable to Cambyses, the son of Cyrus.
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14. Květen 2008

(1839)

Son coeur est un luth suspendu;
Sitot qu’on le touche il resonne.
De Beranger.
 
DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the ...
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14. Květen 2008

(1845)

OF course I shall not pretend to consider it any matter for wonder, that the extraordinary case of M. Valdemar has excited discussion. It would have been a miracle had it not-especially under the circumstances.
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14. Květen 2008

(1850)

Sub conservatione formae specificae salva anima.
RAYMOND LULLY.
 
I AM come of a race noted for vigor of fancy and ardor of passion. Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the ...
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14. Květen 2008
KEATS fell by a criticism. Who was it died of "The Andromache"?* Ignoble souls!- De L’Omelette perished of an ortolan. L’histoire en est breve.
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14. Květen 2008
The garden like a lady fair was cut,
That lay as if she slumbered in delight,
And to the open skies her eyes did shut.
The azure fields of Heaven were 'sembled right
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14. Květen 2008
SINCE the world began there have been two Jeremys. The one wrote a Jeremiad about usury, and was called Jeremy Bentham. He has been much admired by Mr. John Neal, and was a great man in a small way.
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14. Květen 2008
EVERYBODY knows, in a general way, that the finest place in the world is- or, alas, was- the Dutch borough of Vondervotteimittiss.
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14. Květen 2008
The ways of God in Nature, as in Providence, are not as our ways; nor are the models that we frame any way commensurate to the vastness, profundity, and unsearchableness of His works, which have a depth in them greater than the well of Democritus.
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14. Květen 2008
EIROS. Why do you call me Eiros?
CHARMION. So henceforth will you always be called. You must forget, too, my earthly name, and speak to me as Charmion.
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14. Květen 2008
UNA. "Born again?"
MONOS. Yes, fairest and best beloved Una, "born again." These were the words upon whose mystical meaning I had so long pondered, rejecting the explanations of the priesthood, until Death itself resolved for me the secret.
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14. Květen 2008

(1846)

THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that gave utterance to a threat.
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14. Květen 2008

(1850)

Method is the soul of business.
OLD SAYING.
 
I AM a business man. I am a methodical man. Method is the thing, after all.

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