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Presence (another haiku)
Read more: Presence (another haiku)two people can be quiet together only in person. presence is required for that exchange of silences called friendship, called love.
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Quotes of the day
Read more: Quotes of the day“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” – Simone Weil, First and Last Notebooks. “Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer. If we turn our mind toward the good, it is impossible that little by little the whole…
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Haiku
Read more: Haikumade entirely of earth and glitter, I am shattered by the smile around your sadness – leaves and roots and branches with the strangest songbirds rustle and coo in the deadest of nights, each dawn a gaping longing.
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Timișoara scrie #7
Read more: Timișoara scrie #7Așa a arătat seara de 24.10.24 cu Diana Radovan, Cristi Vicol, Cosmin Leucuța și minunata echipă a Cărturești Timișoara! Am râs, am lăcrimat, am dezbătut lucruri mai mult sau mai puțin comode, am citit din recentul meu roman Icoană-n urmărire generală, am dat autografe și, în general, ne-am simțit bine. Distracția s-a continuat apoi în…
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My debut novel in Romanian is out!
Read more: My debut novel in Romanian is out!Dragii mei, eu am ajuns la Timișoara, iar romanul meu pleacă astăzi în lume!!! Ce veți găsi între paginile lui: un furt misterios, iubiri nevindecate și traumele emigrării, suspans și multe emoții. Sunt sigură că o să vă placă!Îl puteți comanda de la https://www.edituradatagroup.ro/produs/icoana-n-urmarire-generala/ sau de la Librăriile Cărturești!Mii de mulțumiri lui Andru-David Simionoiu și…
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Join Me at Timișoara Scrie: My Upcoming Book Reading
Read more: Join Me at Timișoara Scrie: My Upcoming Book ReadingDear friends, On 24.10.24, I’m invited to speak about books, literature, and writing at “Timișoara scrie”, an event hosted by Cărturești in my hometown. I’ll be reading from my latest novel, Icoană-n urmărire generală (mystery/romance), due to be released shortly by Datagroup Publishing. Alongside me, my neighbor and friend Diana Radovan, author of a poignant…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.” Emil Cioran – All Gall is Divided (1952)
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction; and that, as you will see, leaves the great problem of the true nature of woman and the true nature of fiction unsolved. I have shirked the duty of coming to a conclusion upon these two questions –…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“If, whilst I am, I am as I should be, what do I care more? And thus let me lose self every hour, and be twenty successive selfs, or new selfs, ‘tis all one to me: so [long as] I lose not my opinion [i.e. my overall outlook, my character, my moral identity]. If I…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“Fiction is strongest when it launches a moral question. When it goes out and seeks to answer. The questions that we couldn’t ask in life because the costs would be too much. Fiction and narrative art give us a vicarious opportunity to see these questions play out, at no true cost to our own.” –…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“There is no such thing as liberty. The greatest liberators are usually slaves of an idea. The freest people are slaves to convention and public opinion, and more still, slaves to the industrial machine. There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“Waitzkin characterizes medicine as an ideological system that “calls” the patient to be an identity that medicine maintains for him; the diagnosis is the most prevalent form of this identity. The ideological work of medicine is to get the patient to accept this diagnostic identity as appropriate and moral. When the patient accepts this identity,…
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