Category: Literature
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Three Quotes by Rumi That Changed My Way of Thinking Forever (and Maybe Yours)
Ancient Persian wisdom that will blow your mind. Rumi is more than a poet; he is an alchemist of words. His texts get into your mind and transform the shits you have inside in gold. He is one of the most famous mystics in history. The ancient Persian wisdom hidden in his little poems can change…
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The Disturbing Synchronicity Theory of Stephen King Changed My View of Reality
The power of watershed moments. Reading is a risky sport. It’s much more dangerous than bungee jumping. I have always believed that on book covers, they should put a warning text like on cigarette packs, something like this, Reading seriously harms your view of the people around you. I am addicted to reading dangerous books-…
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Three Life Lessons From Haruki Murakami That I Learned Too Late in Life
Discover the pearls of wisdom from one of Japan’s best writers. For me, literature is an exercise in psychoanalysis in which the author explores the subconscious using a series of masks (characters) conditioned around a premise. One of the great masters of this discipline is Haruki Murakami. Reading his fiction taught me to deal with nonfiction…
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Three Latin Life Sayings I Learned at 42 That I Wish I Had Known at 22
Learn this Archaic knowledge before it’s too late. Something strange has happened lately; the universe speaks to me in Latin. I found Latin aphorisms in the most unusual places: graffiti painted on crosswalks, even tattooed on people, like that waitress with the Latin phrase “Res Non Verba” (actions, not words) on her arm. So, I started…
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Three Quotes From Best-selling Author David Sedaris That Will Change the Way You Look at Reality
#3. Feeling the need to be perfect does not make you perfect. David Sedaris is the funniest humor writer in the world. What sets him apart from others is his brutal honesty about his life. David never tells you what to think. He writes things as he lived them and leaves it up to you to…
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Three Spiritual Lessons From Haruki Murakami That Helped Me Find My Way
And maybe do the same for you. I know firsthand that when you are about to lose hope, something challenges you, catches your attention, shines in the middle of the darkest night, becomes a lighthouse, and guides you back home safe and sound. It happened to me with a book. A book that had a green…
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Three Disturbing Quotes by Alan Moore That Will Change Your Outlook On Reality
Discover the pearls of wisdom from one of the greatest living writers. For my 40th birthday, I bought a cake. Alan Moore threw an initiation party with all his friends and declared himself a magician. His friends thought he was crazy (so did I). How could the writer of V for Vendetta, John Constantine, Watchmen, the…
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Three Cold Harsh Truths I Learn Reading Charles Bukowski’s Personal Letters
Cold Harsh Truth 3: Even if you think life is meaningless, you must do your part. Sometimes, we feel like angels whose wings have been clipped by the universe. Other times, people make us feel like the fifth horseman of the apocalypse.But are we that bad? Charles Bukowsky, for example, has always been the archetype of…
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This Disturbing Quote About Loneliness From Haruki Murakami Is Just As Relevant Today As It Was In 1980
Learn from one of the most prominent novelists of all time. After my partner and friends declared me guilty of all their ills and left me lonelier than the moon on a starless night, when I was broke, and everyone seemed to be waiting for me to crash and burn, I had the biggest revelation of…
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Three Disturbing Quotes by Haruki Murakami That Give Me Goosebumps
Discover the pearls of wisdom from one of the greatest novelists ever. Reading Murakami always has a disturbing effect on me. Murakami speaks to me of existential emptiness and loneliness and a dream world we can’t understand, which exists and is just as accurate as the real one. And although sometimes it scares me, I…