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Do you know what sign I am? Aries. What’s that? And? So, what do you think? No big deal? And do you know what my conflict is? The drama? Yes, the drama of my life. Misery. What do you say? Now, just…
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Isidoro Blaisten
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1971
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There is much I cannot tell you. I am not going to be autobiographical. I want to be “bio.”
I write with the flow of the words.
Before the appearance of the mirror, the person didn’t know his own face…
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Clarice Lispector
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Date:
1973
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Tobey’s Voice:I find as I grow older that I keep going back to my friendship with Willie—when we were young and happy and living in Worcester, Massachusetts, in the early years of the century…
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Samuel Nathaniel Behrman
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1958
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Let but the son of earth Remember from his birth That in the end He shall return: As at his birth he was, So shall he be.“Arise and prosper,” say ye unto himOf five years, whose…
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Nina Salaman
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London, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1910
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The fire of joy in solitude
. . . And since in vain I have made this journey,
The ground giving way to my burning steps,
Let me embrace this ardor
In abstract revelry
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Henri Franck
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1912
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With this collection, we intend to launch a particular trend in Yiddish poetry which has recently emerged in the works of a group of Yiddish poets. We have chosen to call it the Introspective Movement…
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Jacob Glatstein, A. Leyeles, N. Minkov
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1919
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Giorgio [Entering]:Am I disturbing you?Olga:So it seems! What good wind brings you here? Sit down.Giorgio:Thank you. I’m returning from the Exposition . . .Olga:Ah, you went! . . .Giorgio:.…
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Amelia Pincherle Rosselli
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1898
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Lazăr:My friend Matei has a doctorate in law as well.
Șor:Another one. That much I understand. A doctor in medicine is feeding on the sick; a doctor in law is feeding on the quarrelsome, but what…
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Moise Ronetti-Roman
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Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania (Bucharest, Romania)
Date:
1900
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I, Koheleth, was king in Jerusalem over Israel. I set my mind to study and to probe with wisdom all that happens under the sun.—An unhappy business, that, which God gave men to be…
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Persian–Hellenistic Period, 6th–3rd Century BCE
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Do you know who turns and returns?
Do you know the meaning of Atonement?
Do you know who watched for you by night,
Late, and in the early morning light?
Do you know who verges on Atonement?
Do you…
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Kurt Wolfskehl
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1934