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Dance is a Delicate Balance…

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There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.  ~Vicki Baum
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.  ~John Dryden
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.  ~Martha Graham
Talk about dance?  Dance is not something to talk about.  Dance is to dance.  ~Peter Saint James
Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.  ~John [...]

Anna

The absolute unattainability of her beauty
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Victor Pelevin “Chapaev and Void”, page 124
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Мне было грустно от абсолютной недостижимости её красоты; я знал, что к ней так же бессмысленно тянуться вожделеющими руками, как пытаться зачерпнуть закат мусорным ведром.
The absolute unattainability of her beauty made me sad; I knew that stretching my lusting hands to her was as [...]

There is Nothing Funny About Love

Musings on Music, Love, Life and not only
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“Love is a drama of contradictions.”
— Franz Kafka
“Life’s splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right [...]

Slow Death by Indecision

Waiting is painful.
Forgetting is painful.
But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

// Esperar duele.
Olvidar duele.
Pero el peor de los sufrimientos es no saber qué decisión tomar. (Paulo Coelho)
That was so me.  Now, I guess I have an intention to have a plan.  Only an intention.  I need a manual on “How [...]

Writing Books in Public

Writing books is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public // Escribir libros es una forma socialmente aceptable de desnudarse en público (Paulo Coelho)

Source: http://vi.sualize.us/view/kallini2002/734bf20e75647ecb5997255657915ab1/
And what is so bad about getting naked?  Maybe if we had to get naked in public more often, we would pay more attention to our bodies.  I know, [...]

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