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Three years ago, on receiving the Golden Lion, the actor and director Roberto Benigni addressed his wife, the actress and producer Nicoletta Braschi:
"We have spent 40 years doing everything together. I know only one way of measuring time: with you or without you."
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Evelyn Waugh and the Sphinxes
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Nikolay Rubtsov's 1960 poem on love for Russia and his native home
Hello, Russia, my homeland! How joyful it is for me beneath your foliage! There is no singing, yet I clearly hear The choral singing of unseen singers… As though a wind had driven me across it, Across the whole land, through villages and capitals! I was strong, but the wind
Books · Society · People
I do not call for the replacement of the state by a library – though the thought has visited me more than once — but I have no doubt that, were we to choose our rulers on the basis of their reading experience rather than their political programmes, there
I do not call for the replacement of the state by a library – though the thought has visited me more than once — but I have no doubt that, were we to choose our rulers on the basis of their reading experience rather than their political programmes, there would be less
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Salvador Dalí at Cap de Creus in Catalonia
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Anton Koberger, Manna from Heaven, 1483
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Abbot Daniel placed a lamp on the Holy Sepulchre on behalf of the whole Russian land
The remarkable Hegumen Daniel, who lived in the twelfth century, describes in his "Life and Pilgrimage of Hegumen Daniel of the Russian Land" how he petitioned King Baldwin I for leave to place a kandilo (a lamp) on the Holy Sepulchre on behalf of the who. Leave was
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In my old age (I turned 36 the day before yesterday), I all but fell in love
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
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Leo Tolstoy playing with his grandchildren in a photograph from 1909
Don't Worry, Children, It's Only 1,300 Pages. Leo Tolstoy playing with his grandchildren, 1909
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A wheat field painted by Van Gogh in the summer of 1888, when he left Paris and set off for Arles
Sometimes we all need to go to Arles
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Oscar Wilde asks Robert Ross for books to await him on his release, in a letter of 1897
“I am terrified for myself, for I shall go out into the world without a single book. My one hope is in my friends… You know which authors I need: Flaubert, Stevenson, Baudelaire, Maeterlinck, Dumas père, Keats, Marlowe, Chatterton, Coleridge, Anatole France, Gautier, Dante and the literature about him, Goethe