Reconstructed Minoan Palace in Crete, built around 1700 B.C., and destroyed around 1350 B.C.
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Sirens
Ludwig Goransson
"Eurylochus: What was the song of the sirens like?
Odysseus: All the things you wanted to be and then all the things you wished you never wished for. It was a delicious itch you want to scratch but you find it under the skin and can't reach it. So the delicious itch becomes unbearable. It told you what you most want is what you most can't have and that the most you can't have is what you already had and lost. It was a song of all the promises I failed to keep."
Odysseus: All the things you wanted to be and then all the things you wished you never wished for. It was a delicious itch you want to scratch but you find it under the skin and can't reach it. So the delicious itch becomes unbearable. It told you what you most want is what you most can't have and that the most you can't have is what you already had and lost. It was a song of all the promises I failed to keep."
Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen aß,
Wer nie die kummervollen Nächte
Auf seinem Bette weinend saß,
Der kennt euch nicht, ihr himmlischen Mächte!
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wer nie die kummervollen Nächte
Auf seinem Bette weinend saß,
Der kennt euch nicht, ihr himmlischen Mächte!
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen aß, Wer nie die kummervollen Nächte Auf seinem Bette weinend saß, Der kennt euch nicht, ihr himmlischen Mächte! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Who never ate his bread with tears,
Nor sat in sorrow-laden nights
On his poor bed, shaking with fears,
Will never know your heavenly might.
Nor sat in sorrow-laden nights
On his poor bed, shaking with fears,
Will never know your heavenly might.
Those who humble themselves will be exalted.
كُلُّ مَن يتواضَع، يُرفَع
[Luke 18:14]
كُلُّ مَن يتواضَع، يُرفَع
[Luke 18:14]
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Those who humble themselves will be exalted. كُلُّ مَن يتواضَع، يُرفَع [Luke 18:14]
He that humbles himself wants to be exalted
كُلُّ مَن يتواضَع، يَبغي الرِّفْعَة
[Luke 18:14 improved] by Friedrich Nietzsche
كُلُّ مَن يتواضَع، يَبغي الرِّفْعَة
[Luke 18:14 improved] by Friedrich Nietzsche
في تأليفِ الكتبِ الضخامِ كثيرُ شقاءٍ وإسراف، فترى الكاتبَ يبذلُ القراطيسَ المُدرَجةَ يَبني رأيًا، لو حكاه بلسانه لفعل بأبلغ ما يكون في دقائق. فلمّا كانَ ما ذكرت، رأيتُ الطريقَ الأسلم (وإنْ دلَّ على بعضِ خمولٍ وضعفِ صنعة) ليسَ في التأليف بل في انتحالِه والزّعمِ أنّ الكتابَ الذي أبغي تأليفَه مؤَلَّفٌ أصلًا، ثُمّ بتقديم ترجمةٍ أو شرحٍ أو تعليقٍ على هذا الكتابِ الخيالي، أُفصِحُ فيهنّ عمّا أردت.
— خ. ل. بورخيس
— خ. ل. بورخيس