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The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

by Pablo Neruda

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Dec 03, 2021 12:42AM

“Một không gian dân chủ cần có hai điều kiện. Thứ nhất, tất cả mọi người, bất kể vị trí xã hội, khả năng kinh tế hay trình độ học vấn, có khả năng lên tiếng... Thứ hai: khả năng lắng nghe nhau của những thành viên trong xã hội”
― Đặng Hoàng Giang, Thiện, ác và Smart phone

tags: democracy, listening, society

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“La tristesse durera toujours.
[The sadness will last forever.]”
― Vincent van Gogh

tags: death, depression, sadness

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“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women

tags: love, pain, relationships, self

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“I'd never recited poetry to anyone before; I've never done it since. I have a highly sensitive, built-in fuse mechanism that keeps me from opening up too far, from revealing my feelings, and reciting poetry makes me feel as though I'm talking about my feelings and standing on one leg at the same time.”
― Milan Kundera, The Joke

tags: feelings, intimacy, kundera, poetry, vulnerability

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“It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.”
― Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

tags: heartbreak, love, love-hurts

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