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Achille smette di mangiare, Giobbe maledice il giorno in cui è nato. Tristano perde se stesso e Catherine si lascia morire dal dolore.Tutti loro stanno male, ma nessuno di loro dice: ehi! sono depresso. La depressione, intesa come tale, è una categoria diagnostica moderna, ma la letteratura ci ha sempre raccontato di uomini e donne…
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“…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. And it told me I don’t really want to go home.“ This is one of the most…
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“Ha detto che ciò che desideri di più è ciò che più non puoi avere e che il massimo che non puoi avere è ciò che già avevi e perso. Era una canzone con tutte le promesse che non sono riuscito a mantenere. E mi ha detto che non voglio davvero tornare a casa.” Questa…
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There are people who seem to live in the past.People who find comfort in the pages of a history book, in the silence of a library, or among the shelves of an archive. People who ask nothing more of life than the chance to cover their hands in dust and immerse themselves in moments long…
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We only have one life. Or at least, we are conscious of living only one life at a time.We do not know whether we have been here before. We do not know how many times we have returned, nor how many times we may return again. What we do know is that we are alive…
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I’ve always had a problem with myself, and with everything around me. I can never stop wondering how things might have turned out if they had taken a different direction from the one they actually did. To be clear, it’s not like I spend every day, every hour, imagining all the different ways my life,…
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Io ho sempre avuto un problema con me stessa e con tutto quello che mi gira intorno. E cioè che non riesco mai a fare a meno di pensare a come sarebbero andate le cose se avessero preso una piega diversa da quella attuale, da quella reale. Sia ben chiaro, non è che sto tutti…
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There is a figure that keeps resurfacing in books, discussions, astrology, and modern reinterpretations of history. Her name is Lilith, and she seems to change face every time someone tells her story. Now… a clarification is necessary right away, because over these thousands of years an incredible number of legends have been built around Lilith.…
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And if I told you that they did, how would you react?Yes, it was a harsh era… austere… so much so that perhaps someone needed to get high… or perhaps not.Maybe drugs, as we understand them today, were not meant to get people “high” at all… but let’s take this one step at a time.…
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You probably think that swearing is a modern invention. That profanity belongs to us, the enlightened, irreverent present, and that in the Middle Ages, for instance, not only was it impossible, but it was actually quite likely that God would strike you down from the sky and set you on fire. Well, no. In the…
Beyond Death 