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A Victorian funeral parlour for dolls, the indispensable addition to any dolls' town
A Victorian funeral parlour for dolls, the indispensable addition to any dolls' town. Now that is a hobby!
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Saint Tikhon rejected accusations that Orthodoxy in America served Russia
I did not know such details: it turns out that in the early twentieth century Orthodox Christians in America were accused of being agents of the Russian state. In 1901, when Saint Tikhon of Moscow was a bishop in the United States, he called “meaningless words” the charge that anyone
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Longing is the torment of the nearness of the distant
Martin Heidegger
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The joke about Cheburashka's Jewish origin predates the remarks of a State Duma deputy
Is this the Mandela effect already, or just universal forgetfulness? How is one to explain why everyone is discussing Cheburashka's Jewish nationality, and, above all, discussing it as the original invention of a State Duma deputy? Yet the man merely voiced an old joke from LiveJournal that everyone
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New York's odious mayor and his wife have already managed to publish a children's book about themselves
New York's odious mayor and his wife have already managed to publish a children's book about themselves. How sweet they are, how sugary and cartoonish. They tell the story of their wedding in the subway. On the one hand, they go on constructing the myth of
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Pushkin’s poem “The Cart of Life” on the ages of man and the passage of time
The Cart of Life. So it turns out Pushkin is writing about us, lads. Though at times its burden is heavy, The cart is light as it goes; The reckless driver, grey-haired Time, Drives on, and will not climb down from the box. In the morning we get into
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Success may fall to a plebeian or a dullard; but to tame the terrors of mortal life and to master misfortune is the lot of a great man. Seneca
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What do you think: is it fake news or not that Barack Obama was in fact born in Kenya, and so was an illegitimate President of the United States, elected by means of a fraud
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Review of the film “Frankenstein” as a story of two solitudes
From the new del Toro film one gets the sense that he has been waiting a good while for the chance to show off his new horrors to the lads and say: look what a monster I've got, and what a character! The critics leave the auditorium deep
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Ryunosuke Akutagawa on the swift passage of time and the year gone by
Time and tide wait for no man. A year has flown by like a snowflake falling into a river: white for a moment, and then gone for ever. Ryunosuke Akutagawa
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Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein" is beautiful
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Tradition is a beauty that we preserve, not a set of shackles that bind us
Ezra Pound