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Letters To Nora (JAMES JOYCE)

Late July 1904 60 Shelbourne Road, Dublin My dear Nora I found myself sighing deeply tonight as I walked along and I thought of an...

22 February, 2020

And then there were numbers (MICKAEL LAUNAY)

In those days, in Mesopotamia, the region was thriving. At the end of the fourth millennium BC, the small villages we visited earlier...

21 February, 2020

If you fight nature, you will lose. (PHILIP FREEMAN)

Forty-five BC was a bad year for Marcus Tullius Cicero. The famous Roman orator and statesman was in his early sixties and alone. He...

20 February, 2020

That’s how civilized people act (ANTON CHEKHOV)

"To my mind, civilized people ought to satisfy the following conditions: They respect the individual and are therefore always indulgent, gentle, polite and compliant....

19 February, 2020

Home is not only where the heart is, and where they have to take you in, but also where people are interested in what you have to say (LOU MARINOFF)

Larry was also struggling with the possible end of a relationship. Married to Carol for nearly twenty-five years, he had two young adult...

18 February, 2020

We want to be appreciated for who we are (ALAN COHEN)

One of the most profound acts of healing I have witnessed was that of a couple whose teenage son had sustained a brain...

16 February, 2020

The Metamorphosis (FRANZ KAFKA)

One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous...

15 February, 2020

Learning is not luxury, it is a necessity (LEONARD MLODINOW)

My father once told me of an emaciated fellow inmate in the Buchenwald concentration camp who had been educated in mathematics. You can...

14 February, 2020

The Bet (ANTON CHEKHOV)

It was a dark autumn night. The old banker was pacing from corner to corner of his study, recalling to his mind the...

12 February, 2020

Joy is mad. And only mad people can afford it. (OSHO)

Joy is mad. And only mad people can afford it. The ordinary sane person is so clever, so cunning, calculating, he cannot afford...

11 February, 2020