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The Horror at Martin's Beach

The spectators, instinctively acting despite the absence of conscious and coherent thought, now retreated up the cliff steps to the hotel veranda. Rumors had reached the guests inside, so that the refugees found a state of terror nearly equal to their own. I think a few frightened words were uttered, but cannot be sure.
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Pikënisja e sfidës së madhe

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— Sipas mendimit tuaj, për çfarë misioni bëhet fjalë? — Vështirë të gjendet me hamendje. Një ditë guxova ta pyesja Dofenin, nëse do të isha edhe unë pjesëtar i atij misioni. Ai m'u përgjigj prerë: «Patjetër, Guri. Këtë herë ne do të aktivizojmë gjithë potencialin tonë për realizimin me sukses të Misionit të Madh. ...
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On Death, Without Exaggeration

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Oh, it has its triumphs, but look at its countless defeats, missed blows, and repeat attempts!...
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Banaliteti i Mjerimit

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— Do të më ndihmonte edhe mua Zoti një ditë, se nuk kam, bërë vetëm keq në këtë jetë! Duke thënë këto fjalë, ai nisi të tregonte një ngjarje të jetuar, e cila shërbente si një ngushëllim i vogël për të kaluarën e tij....
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To Solitude

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Whose words are images of thoughts refin'd, Is my soul's pleasure; and it sure must be Almost the highest bliss of human-kind......
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Instikti i Cinikut

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— Racionimi është simbol varfërie që e kënaq së tepërmi shpirtngushtësinë e diktatorit tonë – e avancoi më tej shakanë Brinjashi. ...
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Then take that destiny upon yourself, and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside. For the creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life is devoted. ...
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Intensifikimi i Dhunës

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Ato ditë të nxehta terrori ekstrem vagoni i partisë u bë për të burgosurit politikë po aq i rrezikshëm sa edhe vetë partia. ...
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Respekt dhe mall për shokët e rënë

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Detektivi i burgosur i rreshtoi njërën pas tjetrës të tri fotografitë, sipas radhës së vdekjes, dhe belbëzoi: në krye tuaj duhej të ishte fotografia ime....
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The Cloud

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The triumphal arch through which I march With hurricane, fire, and snow, When the Powers of the air are chained to my chair, Is the million-colored bow......
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Vdekjes

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Vdekja nuk më tremb, veçse ëndrrat m’i fashit njëherë e përgjithmonë....
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Ajo më zotëronte nga larg ashtu siç më kishte zotëruar nga afër. Kaluan disa vite. Por nuk e harroja aspak. ...
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Nji plagë

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Merre këtë gjak dhe vene në qiellin tand si diell. Në s'ban, vene si hanë. ...
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Arriving in Venus

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Far beneath us an ideal world of clouds hid the surface from our view. We seemed to be floating above a range of snowy Alps, their dusky valleys filled with glaciers, and their sovereign peaks glittering in the sun like diamonds. ...
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Meditim e Dhimbje

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Si një anije pa timonier e përzënë nga dallgët, grupi që vepronte në Tiranë do të përpiqej të merrte kontakt me të autorizuar të CIAs më 20 maj. Kjo ishte e vetmja shpresë shpëtimi për Pahinë. Por a do të realizohej dot ky takim i rëndësishëm për të siguruar qysh atë natë ndërlidhjen me shërbimin sekret amerikan?...
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Dahlia e Bardhë

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Ndërmjet gardhit dhe bashtinës lulëzonte një dahlia që i mbërrinte deri në sup. E ëma e marangozit ka thithur parfumin e dahlias. Ajo e ka nuhatur mjaft gjatë aromën e petaleve të bardha. Të gjitha aromat, i ka nuhatur ajo....
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Until night they ate. When any of them were too tired of sitting, they went out for a stroll in the yard, or for a game with corks in the granary, and then returned to table. Some towards the finish went to sleep and snored. But with the coffee everyone woke up....
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Një natë dimri

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Fjollë e imët, e ftohtë brenda, vezullon prej larg. ...
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Intervistë me Enkelejd Lamaj-n

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Mund të them vetëm që të shkruaj në këtë lloj zhanri, për mua, nuk është thjesht çështje sfide, por kënaqësie e shumëfishtë, diçka e tipit “sine-qua-non”, siç thonë juristët, ndaj dhe, në këtë aspekt, çdo gjë tjetër mbetet të jetë pasojë. ...
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And his desires the fluttering of birds, and the wind in the gaps between his thoughts, and his ships......
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The Moon-Bog

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But in time there came troubles, and the peasants ceased to bless him, and fled away instead as from a doom. And then he sent a letter and asked me to visit him, for he was lonely in the castle with no one to speak to save the new servants and laborers he had brought from the North. ...
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Mjegullnajë

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Atentatorët kishin përdorur ilaç gjumi të fortë, para se të kryenin vrasjet. Këtë e vërtetonte fakti që familjarët e viktimave kishin mbetur rreth 24 orë në gjumë. Sipas rezultateve të ekspertizës, atentatorët i kishin fshirë gjurmët e tyre me anën e një pluhuri të shpërndarë në dysheme, i cili lëngëzohej shpejt dhe zhdukte çdo shenjë....
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Elysium of the roofless. Hence my happiness at last. Lie down, all seems to say, lie down and stay down. I see no connexion between these remarks. But that one exists, and even more than one, I have little doubt, for my part. But what? Which? ...
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In this hall the two Napoleons were proclaimed; and the brilliant memory of those summer festivals that lately made St. Cloud dazzling with light and beauty, was reflected from mirror, cornice, and tinted fabric; from this gilt on the iron chain of usurped dominion......
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The Japanese Spirit

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At the same time, it is well known among competent scholars that Japanese, with its most distant dialect Luchuan, bears great kinship to the Corean, Manchurian, and Mongolian languages. It shares with them, besides the......
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Dikur, këtu...

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«Frynte erë e fortë dhe binte shi. Duke manovruar me shpejtësi, synimi ynë ishte që të arrinim në një park, i cili ndodhet 200 m prej këtej. Ja ku duken majat e pemëve të parkut. Në qoftë se ai do të guxonte të na ndiqte edhe në errësirën e parkut, ne nuk do ta kursenim më atje....
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The Riches of Bunyan

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When angels and men had sinned, how did they fall and crumble before the anger of God! They had not power to withstand the terror, nor could there be worth found in their persons or doings to appease displeased justice. Here then is power seen......
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Enigma Filbi

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— Çështja Filbi është komplekse, z. Meli. Një ditë në SHBA unë isha duke lexuar një artikull të gazetës New York Times që bënte fjalë për dekorimin e Kim Filbit prej KGBsë, me rastin e përvjetorit të ditëlindjes....
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Intervistë me Arti Lushi-n

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Shtratet kryesore ku shtrihet e ka një ndjesi më familjare letërsia ime janë ekzistencializmi, post-modernizmi, realizmi magjik dhe Librat e Shenjtë. ...
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This Is Not It

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Didn’t someone say these people and those people “are used to being tortured”......
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Na prijnë drejt napoloniadash jo gjeneralët meritagraduar para togës dështimore, Na prijnë drejt oazeve të dijes shkretëtirtarët roje zjarrndezës të aleksandrive......
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Parandjenjë?

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Kur kaloi portën e dytë të hekurt dhe po i drejtohej së tretës, për të hyrë në kampin e përgjumur, detektivit të burgosur i zunë sytë dy mace që po haheshin egërsisht me njëra-tjetrën për një copë zorrë, ndanë të një kthine që shërbente si thertore. ...
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Otherwise this stone would seem defaced beneath the translucent cascade of the shoulders and would not glisten like a wild beast's fur... ...
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Para varrit të babait

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Nën efektin shpirtëror e psikologjik të misterit të atij varri, ai tha me vete: «Njeriu është armiku më i madh i njeriut. E megjithatë njerëzimi është krenar për udhëtimin e tij të përgjakshëm në histori… E çuditshme!»...
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We were arguing for a long time, when by some sheer luck, a child fell off a bench and broke both of his jaws. That distracted us from our argument. And then we all went home. ...
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Prelud

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O ajër i mbrëmjes mbështillmë, erdhi ora të vdes përsëri. ...
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The Temple Of Silence

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New angles of criticism, arguments that had never before been uttered by an educated voice, tests and comparisons that had been made only in dialect by men drinking in the little local public houses, crafts half forgotten that had come down by sign of hand ......
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The Riddle

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" The judges said, "Bring us a proof of this." Then were the three mantles brought thither by the servant, and when the judges saw the misty-grey one which the King's daughter usually wore, they said, "Let the mantle be embroidered with gold and silver, and then it will be your wedding-mantle....
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A Simple Soul

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One autumn evening, they struck out for home through the meadows. The new moon illumined part of the sky and a mist hovered like a veil over the sinuosities of the river. Oxen, lying in the pastures, gazed mildly at the passing persons. In the third field, however, several of them got up and surrounded them. ...
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Midis Miqsh

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— Jemi të një mendimi. Ai ka dhunti organizative të spikatura në fushën e shërbimeve sekrete. Dua t‘ju bëj edhe një pyetje, që nuk ka lidhje me këto që po diskutojmë, por është kureshtje e imja: sikur t'ju linin të zgjidhnit, ku do të dëshironit të jetonit? — Në Paris – u përgjigj buzagaz Meli. — Paskemi shije të njëjta – i tha me të qeshur zyrtari amerikan....
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A Christmas Dinner

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As to the dinner, it's perfectly delightful--nothing goes wrong, and everybody is in the very best of spirits, and disposed to please and be pleased....
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The Bloomsbury Christening

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There was only one drawback--the musicians did not play with quite as much spirit as could have been wished. The cause, however, was satisfactorily explained; for it appeared, on the testimony of a gentleman who had come up from Gravesend in the afternoon......
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Earth, is it not this that you want: to rise invisibly in us? – Is that not your dream, to be invisible, one day? – Earth! Invisible!...
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Të gjitha bukuritë e botës

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Në mbrëmje, ndërsa qiejt e zinj të rrugëve u dogjën nga dritat, sa të bukura ishin balerinat mbi afishet ndërmjet germave të zeza... ...
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Intervistë me Darien Levani-n

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Dialekti është në radhë të parë pasuri, e si çdo pasuri duhet ruajtur. Gjuha kombëtare ama është një gjë tjetër e këto të dyja duhet të rrinë të ndara. Por kjo mesele duhet zgjidhur nga gjuhëtarë në vende të posaçme, e jo nga opinionistë a politikanë nëpër emisione televizive....
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Intervistë me Loer Kume-n

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Letërsinë time e shoh shumë të ngjashme me letërsinë e Murakami. Për nga mënyra e trajtesave se sa nga tematikat dhe stili. Letërsi pa kufij, shpesh magjike, dhe njëkohësisht pa tendenca të egzagjeruara moderniste e post, letërsi spontane dhe të egër në harlisje. Letërsi ‘si të vijë’....
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Poetit

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Ky dëshpërim përvëlues, nuk më tremb, më lartëson. Vdekjes, dëshpërimit, përçmimit, shpirti im nuk u përkulet kurrë... ...
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Vizitorët e Natës

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— Sidoqoftë, ne nuk e mohojmë të kaluarën tënde të shkëlqyer, si detektivi më rezultativ i shërbimit tonë sekret. Njerëzit edhe gabojnë, por kjo nuk e përligj mohimin e tyre. Aq më tepër ndonjë rast si i yti. Veprimtaria jote e suksesshme në Sigurimin e Jashtëm të Shtetit është krenari për DSJnë. ...
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Endacakja është në breg të detit

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Ejani tek unë, ju të gjithë Endacakë, lundrues, bija portesh dhe anijesh asnjëherë të ankoruara. A nuk doni ju të jeni endacakë, ju të gjithë, Ilirë, njerëz të Veronës dhe Venedikas ? Luani këto komedi që të bëjnë të qeshësh... ...
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Është ftesë paqeje, apo një monedhë që na blenë sytë, shpirtrat dhe muzikën kaq mrekullisht?!...
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Spirit of Beauty, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, -- where art thou gone? ...
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The Alchemist

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One night the castle on the hill was thrown into the wildest confusion by the vanishment of young Godfrey, son to Henri, the Count. A searching party, headed by the frantic father, invaded the cottage of the sorcerers and there......
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In the winter, we shall travel in a little pink railway carriage With blue cushions....
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Ju vazhdoni të notoni megjithatë, dhe çdo lëvizje që bëni u përafron me mbytjen. Ju mbyteni, mushkëritë tuaja digjen zjarr. Uji ju duket gjithnjë e më i ftohtë, dhe sidomos gjithnjë e më i hidhur. Ju nuk jeni më i ri. Do të vdisni tani. S’është gjë. Unë jam aty. Nuk do t’ju lëshoj....
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Ankorim zhgënyes i shpresave

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— Ju thatë se dënimet janë drakoniane; a mund ta ilustroni këtë me shembuj, z. Meli? u interesua shefi i seksionit evropian të CIAs....
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The Seventh Elegy

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Columns, pylons, the Sphinx, the stirring thrust of the cathedral, grey, out of a fading or alien city....
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Trishtim Dhjetori

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Dimër Dhjetori, më krijon ndjesinë e një trishtimi të gjorë....
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Entuziazmit vangogian ku kamje do të thotë të urresh ç’ka adhuron njerëzima, Entuziazmit astronautik të milingonave së keqtirës sulur të pushtojnë edhe zotin......
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L'amour Par Terre

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Suggestion, her eyes smile the while they scan. Blonde; dainty nose; plump, cherry lips, divine......
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Klient i Panjohur

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— Më shikoni pak i përqendruar dhe gërmoni në kujtesën tuaj, ndoshta… I buzëqeshur e i hutuar, Fredi fiksoi sytë mbi fytyrën e klientit të bezdisshëm....
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Dhjetor

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Në këtë Dhjetor, pamja jote plumb e rëndë në mua kish rënë. Veç një mall i shkretë po m'i nxë sytë, e mushkëritë mezi oksigjen më pompojnë....
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Fajtorët bëhen Gjykatës

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— Në qoftë se misionet tona të dikurshme sot quhen krime, unë nuk do të pranoja kurrë që ndëshkimin e mundshëm të një krimi të kryer ta evitoja duke kryer një ose disa krime të tjerë. ...
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The Land of Dreams

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"O, what land is the Land of Dreams? What are its mountains, and what are its streams? O father! I saw my mother there, Among the lilies by waters fair....
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Sabahudin Hadžialić

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His poetry and prose were translated into English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Albanian.He was the co- owner is the first private newspaper in SR BiH "POTEZ", Bugojno, Bosnia and Herzegovina - 1990. So far he has published ten books of poetry and prose. ...
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An Interview with Poet Mariko Sumikura

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However, it is clear that Japanese literature has traditionally embraced insistence on “decisiveness,” “beauty,” “extinction,” and so on. ...
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Before daylight the next morning, however, we were aroused by a shot from the two hundred pound Parrot gun in Battery Worth, and soon the gunboats opened their batteries and a terrific canonading on the river apprised us of the fact that the long expected ram Albemarle had come down and encountered our fleet. ...
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Lëngojnë argatët e deliriumeve për farën e pambirë në marihuanishte goje, Lëngojnë bojaxhinjtë e turpit për gëlqeren shterë gropash klandestiniteti pa treg, Lëngojnë oficerët perandorivdekur për kufijtë gjeografipagrisur kuqëlizmit, Lëngojnë argjendarët gishtsharruar të pakteve për kurorat maskrye ç’meritës... ...
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The Ethical Way

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The pilot became more serious. "Maybe, Jarth. In our work, we must use robots. We joke about it, but it goes against all galactic belief to let a machine think for us. Maybe that's why we pilots are so cynical." ...
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Vija e vdekjes

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Një ditë prej dite, vajta në komunë. Më duhej një çertifikatë për të provuar se jam plak, se kam punuar për Shqipëri dhe se jam njeri që meritoj hylefe nga qeveria; se, helbete, edhe unë kam punuar për Shqipërinë. ...
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The Sixth Elegy

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Destiny, that darkly hides us, suddenly inspired, sings him into the tempest of his onrushing world. I hear no one like him. All at once I am pierced by his darkened sound carried on streaming air....
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Qeshje Angleze

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— Isha në qytetin e Korçës. Më pëlqeu. Qytet i vogël, por i bukur dhe i pastër. Atje njoha edhe vajzën tuaj. Ai nxori nga çanta një fotografi të zmadhuar, të cilën ia zgjati të burgosurit. ...
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Kësaj here, asnjëra s’lëvizte. Mbase, mbase nuk ishte ajo. Dhe fundja, përse kjo komedi e dhimbshme ? Përse të shkosh t’iu thërrasësh atyre që nuk janë më të gjalla, një emër që mbase quheshin ashtu, dhe që të kujton stinët e frutave dhe aromave, ditët e festave, dhe diellin e paduruar nga i cili, dikur, e shmangnin kokën nga frika e qukave ? ...
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Poetry by Krystyna Lenkowska

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A chosen selection of poems by Bujar Plloshtani, written by the well known polish writer, Krystyna Lenkowska. Krystyna Lenkowska is a Polish poet, translator, and editor. She has published 7 collections of poetry. Her poems in English have appeared in Boulevard, Chelsea, and Confrontation....
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François Mauriac (1885-1970)

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French novelist, essayist, poet, playwright, journalist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1952....
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Guximi sfidon krimin

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— Profesioni i detektivit paska qenë një mallkim për ne. Sa shumë i kam merituar fjalët injoruese të një vajze italiane nga Bolonja dhe buzëqeshjen-akuzë të një detektivi rumun, të vrarë dikur në Bukuresht! ...
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It was a pleasure for me to find in your letter the name of Professor Horacek; I have great reverence for that kind, learned man, and a gratitude that has lasted through the years. Will you please tell him how I feel; it is very good of him to still think of me, and I appreciate it. ...
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Ithypallic, erkish, lewd, Their gibes have corrupted it....
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Squares: O square in Paris, endless show-place, where the milliner, Madame Lamort, winds and twists the restless trails of the earth... ...
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Diamantët që e fshehin gjenialitetin jo në evitim lufte por në fitimin e saj, Diamantët eshtërorë që pasi i trofen nis kronikanësh hyjnorin akt rishpërndarjeje......
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Heshtje Ankthndjellëse

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— Në kontrollin e fundit mjekësor që iu bë të burgosurve të kampit tonë në aparatin e florografisë, ti ke dalë i sëmurë, Hamit. Drejtoria e Kampe-Burgjeve ka dërguar një kurë për ty me këtë mjekun nga Tirana. ...
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Në këmbë pothuaj përpara të gjithëve, diku mbi një prag të shënuar me një hap nator, gati gjysmë të zhveshur në një mantel fërgëllues hedhur supeve me nxitim, ama me krahët duke u dridhëruar nga pasioni dhe duke mbrojtur ......
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On Behalf Of The Management

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"In a few more days the campaign managers from the other towns came sliding into Esperitu. Our headquarters was a busy place. We had an interpreter, and ice-water, and drinks, and cigars, and Denver flashed the General's roll so often that it got so small you couldn't have bought a Republican vote in Ohio with it. ...
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…Mysticis umbraculis

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The rose, that splendid, natural and weary Sheds even her heavy veil of perfumes to hear Beneath the flesh the diamond weeping... ...
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Intervistë me Përkthyesin Urim Nerguti

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NERGUTI: Do t’iu përcillja thjesht moton e Marcel Proustit që thotë : "Punoni sa të keni dritë." ...
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Njohje

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Meli ishte inteligjent dhe me eksperiencë në jetë. Këtë e tregonte qartë aftësia e tij për tu orientuar drejt nëpër labirintet e vështirë të jetës së burgut. Do të ishte utopi për një person me një intelekt e përvojë të tillë, që të mendonte se do të gjente shteg në vigjilencën vetëmbrojtëse të Diksit, për ta dëmtuar atë. ...
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Shinë palcshkrirë shikimi që shpejtësisë ainshtajnore të dritës i ri’jep ritmet e brumbullizmit, Korbem kitarash bluesi e trishtohesh në kllapi black metali e-tok vajtohemi në hard rrock!...
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Gjeth i zverdhur

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Gjeth i zverdhur, inteligjent, por i mynxyrshëm....
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Ky lumë më rrjedh tjetrës anë murit të qetësisë që më ndan me gravitetet e yjësive, Krahët i hap vetëtimshëm për ta pushtuar në çdo stërkalë përqafimash dehur marrimit......
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Humor Vrastar

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Të burgosurit që punojnë atje lart janë armiq të partisë sonë të dashur. Pavarësisht se ata janë dënuar më lehtë nga të tjerët, armiku mbetet gjithmonë armik. Ne nuk duhet të fillojmë t‘i ngjisim shkallët e furnelit, pa na ardhur prej së larti i njëjti sinjal. Përndryshe ata mund të shkarkojnë kastile mbi ne ndonjë vagon me mineral, duke u justifikuar se nuk dinin gjë që kishte njerëz në ngjitje. ...
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One moment: Summer took no heed: whereon, laughing, autumn sped away from Paris....
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Booker prize 2011: Julian Barnes triumphs at last

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Fourth time lucky for Julian Barnes, who wins the Man Booker prize 2011 for his novel The Sense of an Ending after missing out on three previous occasions....
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‘No more’ -: you, who under your hands grow richer like vintage years of the vine: who sometimes vanish, because the other has so gained the ascendancy: I ask you of us. ...
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Kujtohu!

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Ishte kunat me Nachito Riveros, që ka zënë të punojë kapele ca ditë pas martesës, në atë pikë sa, për të jetuar, Inesi, e shoqja, është dashur të shesë pulk[1] nën strehë, në hyrje të rrugës së madhe ; dhe nga ana e tij, Nachito e kalonte jetën e vet duke luajtur melodi të bukura me një mandolinë që ia jepnin tek berberi don Refugio. ...
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A don qymyr , Zotni?

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"Vertet vape ban. Pa kujt i duhet qymyri. Po e mbaj dhjete leke", mendon malsorja dhe ec neper hije rruges se qytetit. Kali leviz ne symbylle. Ndoshta andrron.Malsorja con kryet. Shikon diellin... koha me u nise. Me u kthye ne malsi. E qymyri s'u shit....
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Scared we hold on tightly to the golden rope and resist the departure. But it breaks....
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Pas Internimit e Dëbimit - Spaçi

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Si Kozeta e Hygoit, kur kthehej me kovën e rëndë të ujit në Monfermej dhe e zinte nata rrugës nëpër korie» – mendonte me vete Diksi. – «E llahtarisur prej vetmisë në pyll, ajo këndonte për t'i dhënë zemër vetes: ―jo, unë s'kam frikë‖. Veçse me një ndryshim rrënjësor midis tyre: ajo ishte mishërimi i pafajësisë, ky është mishërimi i krimit.» ...
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Leximi - E vetmja kënaqësi në jetën e cunguar

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— Unë nuk kam njohur as babanë, pa le më CIAn – u përgjigj i arrestuari. — Pikërisht për këtë arsye, ëndrra jote ishte t‘i njihje të dy njëherësh. Por, mjerisht, nuk arrite ta kurorëzoje synimin tënd antishqiptar. ...
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Tarti

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Gardianët ishin orvatur dy herë t'i lanin hesapet me Tartin, duke u përpjekur ta helmonin. Të burgosurit, e bashkë me ta edhe mjeku i dënuar i kampit, kishin bërë çmos t'ia shpëtonin jetën qenit besnik....
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The mind forgets sometimes there may be only a few awakes and sleeps left to all our lives.One feels a great sorrow for Theodor. He does not have someone who is a part of him the way ......
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It can change everything it can make the darkness shine. It is a switch for the whole country. Everything depends on it. Look at it, touch it…...
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2011

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Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish poet, psychologist, and translator who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2011. Tranströmer has occupied an influential position in Swedish literature from the 1950s. ...
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Once a human being decides for the highest he is on the highroad to complete freedom. The freedom is not going to be won in a moment, but must be fought for by the individual through the whole course of his life. His body is always with him, and will at times attempt to master him—he must fight continually to ensure conquest. ...
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… You advise me to go to Petersburg, and say that Petersburg is not China. I know it is not, and as you are aware, I have long realized the necessity of going there; but what am I to do? Owing to the fact that we are a large family, I never have a ten-rouble note to spare, and to go there......
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Elegy IV

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Who has not sat, afraid, before his own heart's curtain? It lifted and displayed the scenery of departure. Easy to understand. The well-known garden swaying just a little. Then came the dancer. ...
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Phoenician colonization and Phoenician resistance assumed an entirely different character. The earlier Phoenician settlements, such as those in Sicily described by Thucydides, were mercantile factories: Carthage subdued extensive territories with numerous subjects and powerful fortresses....
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Is the legend vain that tells of music's beginning in the midst of the mourning for Linos? the daring first sounds of song piercing the barren numbness, and how in that stunned space. ...
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A Departmental Case

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The treasurer looked sympathetic but shocked. The commissioner's voice had grown louder as he rounded off the sentences that, however praiseworthy they might be in sentiment, reflected somewhat upon the capacity of the head of a more or less important department of state. The clerks were beginning to listen. ...
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In Space

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"There is Venus right ahead," cried the astronomer, but in a softer tone than usual, perhaps out of respect for the sovereign laws of the universe. "The course is clear now—we are fairly on the open sea—I mean the open ether. I must get out my telescope." ...
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Autumn

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The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up, as if orchards were dying high in space. Each leaf falls as if it were motioning "no." ...
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Trëndafilët e fatit e karafilët e rastësisë, S’janë e njëjta gjë kur befas i ke ndër duar, Në nuancën e adhurimit a pikmentin e përçmisë, Veç ti je pandryshueshëm ëndrrës petlëçmuar. ...
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Vjeshtë ...

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Gotat me zili përgjojnë, nuancat intime që mund të fsheh një femër si Ti plot hijeshi. Përjashta, Vjeshta ka filluar. ...
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Në të çarat e qiellit të inteligjencies suaj që i paqmë s’mund të quhet, Mes brohorive jepmëni drejtësi t’u emëroj guvernatorë injorance......
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They require no drilling to prepare them for the field; no bugle or drum to sound the charge. Their drum is the rattling thunder; their trumpet the roaring storm. They began to train for this warfare when they were not so tall as their fathers’ boots, and there are no awkward squads among them now....
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Apollonios of Tyana in Rhodes

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“When I enter a temple,” said the Tyanian in conclusion, “even if it is a small one, I would much rather see a gold and ivory statue there ...
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Autumn Eyes

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But the grass is already yellowed above you. The wind is cold and full of thistledown. ...
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Thought is the common factor of all mankind. There is no Eastern thought, or Western thought; there is only the common capacity to think, whether one is utterly poor or most sophisticated, living in an affluent society. Whether a surgeon, a carpenter, a labourer in the field, or a great poet, thought is the common factor of all of us....
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Self-control also involves calmness, courage and steadiness. Whatever difficulties the teacher may have either at home or at school, he must learn to face them bravely and cheerfully, not only that he may avoid worry for himself, but also that he may set a good example to his boys, and so help them to become strong and brave. ...
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Këngë e Vrugët

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Ka kohë që nuk s'ia kuptoj cicërrimën Në një degë më vishet murgu Ma mbush me tamjanë kokën dhe çatinë Në degë tjetër i bie një teli Të ndezur,ajri dhe uji përzjarren. ...
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Sirius, that brilliant white or bluish star, which flashes like a diamond in the south, is one of the fiercest. He is a double star, his companion being seven and himself thirteen times massier than the sun; but they are fifty times brighter, and a million times further off......
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"We made it unanimous, and then we gathered our guns and assaulted the blue troops in force. We fired over their heads, and then charged 'em with a yell, and they broke and ran....
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In his heart he excused her, thinking her too clever for farming, a calling under the ban of Heaven, since one never saw a millionaire in it. ...
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A New Force

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"No. The fact is, I have not yet investigated the subject as fully as I would like. My mind is not quite clear as to the causes of the phenomena. I have discovered a new field of research, and great discoveries are still to be made in it. Were I to patent the machine, I should have to divulge what I know. ...
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"That I'm not allowed to tell you," said Bryce, who had no intention of informing her that one person was himself and the other imaginary. "But I can assure you that I am certain—absolutely certain!—that their story is true. The fact is—I can corroborate it." ...
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A young lady crossed the street, passed him at the corner and entered a door over which was the sign, "The Elmore Bank." Jimmy Valentine looked into her eyes, forgot what he was, and became another man. She lowered her eyes and coloured slightly. ...
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Diplomacy

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But he was a passionate lover of flowers and plants, and had a positive genius for rose-culture, and was at all times highly delighted to take flower-lovers round his garden. She turned at once and walked in, and Folliot led her away down the scented paths. ...
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The Duel

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"You are awfully spoilt, my friend!" Samoylenko sighed. "Fate has sent you a young, beautiful, cultured woman, and you refuse the gift, while if God were to give me a crooked old woman, how pleased I should be if only she were kind and affectionate! I would live with her in my vineyard and . . ." ...
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Kredo për Detin

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Nën idenë dhe drejtimin e poetit Dhimitër Pojanaku, më datën 28 Gusht 2011, ora 19.00 buzë detit, 100 m. poshtë " Delfinit", në Ujë të Ftohtë, tek lokali i Hetem Kurtit, i njohur në Vlorë, Bar Restorant "SUNRIS", organizohet takimi poetik "Kredo për detin". ...
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A kind of twilight still reigned, and after the first moment of surprise, I perceived that we were standing on a light metal gangway in the middle of a great hollow cell of a luminous black or dark blue colour, relieved by innumerable bright points, and resembling the night sky in miniature. ...
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Të Birtë e Shekullit të Ri

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Na të birtë e shekullit të ri, me hovin ton e të ndezun peshë, ndër lufta të reja kemi m'u ndeshë dhe për fitore kem' me ra fli. ...
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Moon over Mountain Pass

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The birds have vanished down the sky. Now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me... ...
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A New Force

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"Wonderful!" I exclaimed, forgetting the attitude of caution and reserve which I had deemed it prudent to adopt. The inventor laughed with childish glee, enjoying his triumph, and stroking the case as though it were a kitten. ...
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Dy botët

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Te jet' e ditës nxitojmë të harruar, të ndjekur nga një frikë e paformë te jet' e natës kthejmë për t'ëndërruar. ...
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A Trip to Venus

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"We might steer by the stars to a point on the planet's orbit, mathematically fixed in advance, and wait there until it comes up. The atmosphere of the approaching planet would act as a kind of buffer, and the fall of the car could be further checked by our means of recoil, and also by a large parachute....
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Martians never die

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The sphere rested on a number of metal stilts, reaching out from the lower hemisphere, which held it about three feet from the floor, like a great pincushion turned upside down. ...
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The Galleries

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The roads along the banks of the Rhine, too, are absolutely perfect. Well they may be so in fact, for workmen have been constantly employed in making and perfecting them for nearly two thousand years. Julius Cæsar worked upon them. ...
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Rollo in the Rhine

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Immense plains of the most fertile land, which seem to have been formed in this way, exist at the present time along the banks of the Rhine at various places. These plains are all very highly cultivated, and are rich and beautiful beyond description. ...
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"Grand! Glorious! Magnificent!" fairly exploded the professor, when he could risk a more comprehensive look, right hand tightly gripping the polished lever through which he controlled that admirable mechanism. ...
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The Lost City

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"Well, uncle Phaeton, have it your own way. Under either name, I fancy the thing-a-ma-jig would kick up a high old bobbery with a man's political economy should it chance to go bu'st right there! And, besides, when I was a weenty little fellow I was taught never to call a man a fool or a liar—" ...
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The General swung round, and laid a large forefinger upon the bosom of his friend. Much of the General's success had been due to his dexterity in establishing swift lines of communication between cause and effect. ...
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Një fluskë e kristaltë prej vere

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Botën shpirtërore ngado në sytë e saj e shoh, kjo fluskë prej kristali sikur për paqe më fton. Je larg, përballë të kam, gumëzhin brenda meje si një shpirt i huaj. ...
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The Past, Present, and the Eternal

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The history of great personalities in the realms of literature, art, and science show in a remarkable way how men have risen above the influences of their time, and beyond the cramping tiredness of the mere flesh. Could a great thinker like Aristotle be entirely conditioned by flesh and environment? ...
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Another search for truth

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To accept unreservedly Naturalism, Socialism, and Individualism is impossible, for these rob life of its deeper meaning. To return to the older doctrines without reserve is equally impossible. ...
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By Misadventure

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He thought of what he might tell—if he told all the truth. He thought of what he might get out of Ransford if he, Bryce, were Coroner, or solicitor, and had Ransford in that witness-box. He would ask him on his oath if he knew that dead man—if he had had dealings with him in times past—if he had met and spoken to him on that eventful morning—he would ask him, point-blank, if it was not his hand that had thrown him to his death. ...
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The things

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At first, Aleksey Alekseyevich would extend his hand and say: - Give charity, for Christ's sake, to him whose loins have suffered for the motherland. - But this brought no success. Then Aleksey Alekseyevich changed the word 'motherland' to the word 'revolution'. But this too brought no success. Then Aleksey Alekseyevich composed a revolutionary song, and, if he saw on the street a person capable, in Aleksey Alekseyevich's opinion, of giving alms, he would take a step forward and proudly, with dignity......
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De Profundis

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There is a hissing wind which haunts deserted huts How sad this evening. ...
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This was really an outer court of the old cloisters; its high walls, half-ruinous, almost wholly covered with ivy, shut in an expanse of turf, liberally furnished with yew and cypress and studded with tombs and gravestones. In one corner rose a gigantic elm; in another a broken stairway of stone led to a doorway set high in the walls of the nave......
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Art and the Bronko

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The painting—one might almost say panorama—was designed to portray a typical Western scene, interest culminating in a central animal figure, that of a stampeding steer, life-size, wild-eyed, fiery, breaking away in a mad rush from the herd that, close-ridden by a typical cowpuncher, occupied a position somewhat in the right background of the picture. ...
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The Shadow out of Time

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Of real friendliness, however, I encountered little. Something in my aspect and speech seemed to excite vague fears and aversions in every one I met, as if I were a being infinitely removed from all that is normal and healthful...
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A Mother in a Refugee Camp

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In their former life this was perhaps A little daily act of no consequence... ...
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Those Who Sit

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    Arthur Rimbaud    Dark with knobbed growths, peppered with pock-marks like hail, their eyes ringed withGreen, warty fingers clenched on their thigh-bonesTheir skulls stained with indeterminate blotchesLike ...
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Evening Thought

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Mourning, a sinister and lamentable story Of excess love, bitter desire, and more: The fury, too, and censure of his Emperor. Ovid dreams wearily of Rome, and vainly......
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"Oh, Muse of the Red..."

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The peaceful songs of Phrygian village singers, And the important hymns, that gods to mortals bade. From morn till night in oaks' silent shade... ...
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The destiny of a professor's wife

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She is walking around and feeling very sleepy. Around her, some blue and green people are running around - and she is getting sleepier and sleepier. ...
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Pär Lagerkvist (1891-1974)

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Lagerkvist was a member of the Swedish Academy and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1951. ...
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Struggle With The Angel

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I’m losing sight of them in the distance. One of the shades, however, is rose-red... ...
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"It's a fearful drop, that, sir," he said. "And he came down with such violence. You're sure it's over with him?" ...
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"In spite of it," continued Ransford, "you've since addressed her again on the matter—not merely once, but twice." ...
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The Teacher

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Living in this atmosphere of love during school hours, the boy will become a better son and a better brother at home, and will bring home with him a feeling of life and vigour, instead of coming home......
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"You look like a Spaniard, too," he continued. "And you're from Texas. And you can't be more than twenty or twenty-one. I wonder if you've got any nerve." ...
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Friends in San Rosario

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"I am well aware of that," said the other man, in cool, brittle tones. "Will you kindly receive my card?" ...
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A fantastic suspicion crept into Herman's mind. "Just a moment," he said carefully. "If you don't mind telling me, what is it that you have to remember?" ...
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Love both at home and in the school will naturally show itself in continual small acts of service, and these will form a habit out of which will grow the larger and more heroic acts of service which makes the greatness of a nation......
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Freudian Slip

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All right, he thought finally, there's no point going on with it. Data established: hallucination, compulsion, inhibition. Where do we go from here? ...
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The sun rises, but shines not. The men appear, at first sparsely and shame-faced enough, then thicker, in the streets of Washington—appear in Pennsylvania avenue, and on the steps and basement entrances. ...
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K: Would you differentiate between the mind and the brain or would you only use the word `mind' to convey the wholeness of the human mind? ...
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My spirits sank. I was not there to listen to such a world-old hypothesis—to such a time-worn, long-ago-refuted, bald, feeble, illogical, vicious, patent sophistry—to an ancient, baseless, wearisome, ragged, unfounded......
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Dielli

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Më kot u përpoqa, të gjeja udhën time në këtë tokë. Udha ime paska qenë atje, në qiell! ...
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You're the most beautiful human being I ever saw,' says she. 'Will you come and live with me? I'll show 'em whether I can spend money or not,' she says. ...
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Sunlight

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One day it was altogether the sea. A wonderful thing! A few people survive here. ...
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Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

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Bertrand Russell was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. ...
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Wondering, fearful, undecided what to do, the old coloured man stood motionless in the gloomy strip of hallway, and waited developments. ...
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Kështu vajtonin zogjtë për një lis të prerë. Kur të vdes, të më përcjellin zogjtë si ndër balada, pikëllim qiejsh, shi bilbilash! ...
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Ai më zgjati kupën e limonëve jeshilë. Shtrydha një çerek përsipër xhinit tim dhe i trazova copat e akullit me gisht. - Gjendja e tij u përkeqësua, shtoi Terri. Ia dha vetes me një plumb në gojë....
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S.P.: At this point, what does the mind do? What can it do? There is no movement of thought. ...
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Then comes unexpectedly a noble woman who opens up a plan. It seems right; it seems correct. ...
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An outrageous scene followed. Next day the incident was exposed in print, and they began getting up a collective protest against Varvara Petrovna's disgraceful conduct in not having immediately turned the general out....
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Happiness

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Such beauty that for a minute death and ambition, even love... ...
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William Faulkner (1897-1962)

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Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949. ...
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"It's not a coma yet, not exactly," the doctor said. "I wouldn't want to call it coma. Not yet, anyway. He's suffered shock. In shock cases, this kind of reaction is common enough; it's a temporary reaction to bodily trauma. Coma. ...
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The Year 1934

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And still their laughter rings under the willow sadly silent in its silver....
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In the morning I want to enjoy my breakfast in the Hotel Majestic, but the agents rush me through it. I order a glass of juice, and a girl asks if she can sit down....
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The Will

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Today he leaves me his fortune for the same reason, because he had no one else to leave it to. It would on the other hand have been extremely surprising if he had left it to you." ...
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Can that really help? You can't barricade yourself with planks against a celestial phenomenon. ...
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The Ocean

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Into the ocean-deep grief of nature, The night's, the water's united coldness Prepares my spirit for death's dark dwelling. ...
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Brigjeve t’liqenit

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Kur hëna ndrit natën vonë, anijet buzë liqenit pushojnë. ...
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Romance Sonambulo

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Green wind. Green branches. The ship out on the sea. And the horse on the mountain. ...
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About Love

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In the spring, when you came to dinner, you were younger, more confident. You were full of eagerness, and talked a great deal then; you were very interesting, and I really must confess I was a little carried away by you....
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Ode To A Politician

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The visible expression in the flesh, Material and tangible, Of all that goes to make the element... ...
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Dështim

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Mësuesi i bukurshkrimit ngriti sytë me ndrojtje dhe pa se kishte shpëtuar : e ëma, në nxitim e sipër, në vend të ikonës, kishte hequr portretin e shkrimtarit Lajeçnikov. ...
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A letter from home was worth ten thousand pieces of gold. I scratch the scant hairs on my white head......
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Steeped in the light are beautiful. What majestic stillness broods Over these colored solitudes. ...
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Thoughts

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Of the conformity of politics, armies, navies, to them, Of the shining sun by them--of the inherent light, greater than the rest... ...
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The Oreillons found this speech very reasonable. They deputed two of their principal people with all expedition to inquire into the truth of the matter; these executed their commission like men of sense, and soon returned with good news....
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Sonnet to Liberty

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But that the roar of thy Democracies, Thy reigns of Terror, thy great Anarchies, Mirror my wildest passions like the sea... ...
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And filled my huge beer mug, whose froth was turned Into gold by a ray of late sunshine. ...
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Hënë e ngrënë mbi liqen

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Hëna mërdhihet, trishtimi i saj buzagaz tek ne hidhet. ...
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Only once I allowed myself to scoff at her things. You see I never allow myself to behave like that. I keep up a gentlemanly tone with my clients: few words, politeness and severity. "Severity, severity!" ...
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Këngë për veten time

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Udhëtova ëndrrat në fillim, më pas rrugën e madhe Si heronjtë e lashtë të përrallave. ...
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Silence

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He is the corporate Silence: dread him not! No power hath he of evil in himself... ...
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Pishat nën erë drithëronin përsipër tyre. Nganjëherë dhe vërshëllenin nën një shkulm ere. Halat e pishës vërshëllejnë kur era është e fortë. Pastaj ndezi motorin, u kthye mbrapsht dhe zbriti udhën....
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Meditation is one of the most extraordinary things, and if you do not know what it is you are like the blind man in a world of bright colour, shadows and moving light. It is not an intellectual affair, but when the heart enters into the mind, the mind has quite a different quality......
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U ul dhe çoi dorën te koka e cila dukej gati për të shpërthyer, pastaj u ngrit dhe shkoi të kërkojë në një raft tërë pluhur të kuzhinës, një shishkë farmacie që mbante etiketën « Brandy »....
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The American Garden

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So, then, to those who would incite whole streets of American towns to become florally beautiful, "formal" gardening seems hardly the sort to recommend. About the palatial dwellings of men of princely revenue it may be enchanting....
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Theoretikos

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Wisdom and reverence are sold at mart, And the rude people rage with ignorant cries Against an heritage of centuries....
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Fatkeqësi ! oh ! çfarë dite e bardhë Do të fitojë mbi tërbimin tënd ? ...
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Pluhur

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Jeta jonë, me pluhur përplot. Më kot jemi endur... ...
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I remember the weather that morning: it was a cold, clear, but windy September day; before Andrey Antonovitch stretched a forbidding landscape of bare fields from which the crop had long been harvested......
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A Day in the Country

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As soon as the rain begins, the wind drops. The only sound is the patter of rain dropping like fine shot on the young rye and the parched road. ...
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Herodias

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These aspects of nature, which seemed to his troubled fancy signs of the wrath of the gods, terrified him, and he leaned heavily against the balcony railing, his eyes fixed, his head resting upon his hands. ...
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The Unknown

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"I am both grieved and delighted, madame, to have jostled you. For more than two years I have known you, admired you, and had the most ardent wish to be presented to you..."...
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Three Questions

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Equally various were the answers to the second question. Some said, the people the King most needed were his councillors; others, the priests; others, the doctors; while some said the warriors were the most necessary. ...
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Opening of the Secession War

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I had been to the opera in Fourteenth street that night, and after the performance was walking down Broadway toward twelve o’clock, on my way to Brooklyn......
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The journalist then repaired to the office of "La Vie Francaise." As he entered he saw by the clerks' busy air that something of importance was going on, and he hastened to the manager's room....
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Te mallkuarit e reres fshine thikat dhe iken me turbanet tere gjak. ...
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Kohës

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Kohë e vlefshme, ti sjell ndryshimin e duhur. ...
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It wasn't right--it was against Nature--and he thought of those terrible last words of his stricken friend, "It come from some place whar things ain't as they is here...one o' them professors said so..." ...
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And our innocence still Mocks the fantasies Of those tilters at windmills Though sometimes we feel. ...
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They seated themselves upon a bench before the door, beneath a blossoming rosebush. After several moments of silence Duroy asked: "Will it be some time before you return to Paris?"...
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"In spite of you and of your friends the fiends, and of your master the Devil!" flung out Jan. For Jan had a soul that was generous and brave and tender and excessively short-tempered. Even the best of souls have their failings. ...
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The Cloud

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In nearest past, you were storming skies, mighty, And were quite enwind by the powerful lightning... ...
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His words seemed tinged with a kind of sarcastic mockery, yet he was extremely agitated, casting suspicious glances around him, growing confused, and constantly losing the thread of his ideas. ...
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Friendship

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Where and in which spring was it grown? And how long? By whom was cut? ...
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In The Spring

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The calm river grew wider; the atmosphere was warm and perfectly still, but a murmur of life seemed to fill all space. ...
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Mund t'a ndrrojsha krejt jetën t'eme me nji ditë të vetme lumnije që mund të më fali ai, ai që ka në dorë çilsat e Parrizit t'em. ...
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The Shadow out of Time

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Even my speech seemed awkward and foreign. I used my vocal organs clumsily and gropingly, and my diction had a curiously stilted quality, as if I had laboriously learned the English language from books....
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Thomas Eliot (1888-1965)

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Thomas Eliot was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948....
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Farewell

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To wake a dream by my heart, bare, With exultation, shy and air... ...
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The Blue Everywhere

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This city, its suburbs, the capitol, the front of the White House, the places of amusement, the Avenue, and all the main streets, swarm with soldiers this winter, more than ever before....
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The Will

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The notary smiled, bowed, and replied pleasantly: "I comprehend the scruples which cause you to hesitate..."...
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An Extempore

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They saw her highness had made up her mind And quaver'd like the reeds before the wind......
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After a few minutes' reflection, he decided to lay aside that page until the following day, and to write a description of Algiers. ...
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Dream - Land

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Lakes that endlessly outspread Their lone waters - lone and dead......
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Gifts—Money—Discrimination

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I provide myself with a quantity of bright new ten-cent and five-cent bills, and, when I think it incumbent, I give 25 or 30 cents, or perhaps 50 cents, and occasionally a still larger sum to some particular case......
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Shtegëtar

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Asnjeri s'më pret te porta, vetëm trishtimi dhe trëndafilat tërë ankth. Nata dremit te ajri i dritares, ku janë gdhendur sytë e mi në moment pikëllimi. ...
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Chords, vibrations, and harmonic ecstasies echoed passionately on every hand, while on my ravished sight burst the stupendous spectacle of ultimate beauty. ...
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By degrees I commenced to feel an overwhelming wonder at the mad and fantastic conceptions of Joe Slater. The man himself was pitiably inferior in mentality and language alike; but his glowing, titanic visions......
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Krijohet "Shoqata e Librit Shqip"

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Në njoftimin për shtyp të Shoqatës së Librit Shqip thuhet se kjo shoqatë do të ruajë standardet e padisktuara për librin, siç janë respektimi rigoroz i së drejtës së autorit, paraqitja estetike e çdo botimi......
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The Dream

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The genius's masterpiece appears With former brilliance to us. ...
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The Haunter of the Dark

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The vacant church was in a state of great decrepitude. Some of the high stone buttresses had fallen, and several delicate finials lay half lost among the brown, neglected weeds and grasses....
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Denizens of some planets might be able to live on certain others--even planets belonging to other galaxies, or to similar dimensional phases of other space-time... ...
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Ditën kur të mos ketë më karkalecë, bota do të mbushet me klithma shpirtrash të shenjtë dhe të gjithë ne do të vrapojmë, të tmerruar....
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Odë gëzimi

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Në Shën Naum, si poet i fundit i njerëzimit un’ shtegtoj. ...
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The Festival

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It was a silent, shocking descent, and I observed after a horrible interval that the walls and steps were changing in nature, as if chiselled out of the solid rock....
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Freedom And The World

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Every luxury known through the earth's wide expanse, In profusion procured was put forth to enhance... ...
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Kur kishte për të ardhur ai, mbushte me trëndafila dy vazot e saj të mëdha prej qelqi të kaltër, dhe përgatiste si dhomën edhe veten si ndonjë kurtizane që pret një princ. ...
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Shine like the Sun of Tabriz rising in the East. Shine like the star of victory. Shine like the whole universe is yours! ...
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Por në vend që të vëzhgoja, pata dobësinë të kthehem me mendje drejt tjetrit, drejt burrit me shkop. Dhe atëherë qenë përsëri mërmërimat. Të sjellin heshtjen, ky është roli i sendeve. ...
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Charmides

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I am reflecting, I replied, and discover that temperance, or wisdom, if implying a knowledge of anything, must be a science, and a science of something. ...
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The First-Class Passenger

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Everyone was enthusiastic about her, the devil only knows why; to my thinking she was -- what shall I say? -- an ordinary, commonplace creature, like lots of others....
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Gushkuqi në pishë thërret çdo dhjetë sekonda, dhe era e perëndimit që mbështjell, e vëmendshme, muret e mia, lë në prehje detin e rrafshtë, të dendur, të fortë, me një ngjyrë blu të ngurtë që do të zbutet me rënien e ditës....
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Ne do të heshtim

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Atje ku yjet këputen qiejve të largët, ne sërish si hënë do të ndriçojmë. ...
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This splendid vision dwelt in her memory as the most beautiful thing that it was possible to dream, so that now she strove to recall her sensation....
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Në Ohër

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Liqeni, tek buçet fillim brigjeve në mur. Natë melankolike, kundrejt këtij fati të mpirë. ...
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"Exquisite creature!" murmured the author, kissing her hand close to the bracelet. "It's not you I am kissing, but the suffering of humanity. Do you remember Raskolnikov and his kiss?" ...
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How could anyone make a pact with a hurricane? God is working everywhere his massive Resurrection... ...
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Dëshpërim i hidhur

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M’u duk një Vjeshtë e vetmuar, një vetmi e verbër. ...
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The Minister-Emeritus

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In a little while Meysie came cautiously out of the back door with a bowl of broth under her apron. The minister had not stirred, deep in his folio Owen. ...
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Under The Red Terror

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Thus we might have talked for long enough, but suddenly his face darkened and he lifted his eyes from the Cross. He had remembered his message. ...
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Without the eyes...

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How would the trees' heads toss free in the air of Love? How would the blossoms shake their sleeves in days of spring To shed their lovely coins about the garden wide? ...
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I'd like not to die Before the invention of Eternal roses The two-hour day The ocean on the mountain... ...
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André Gide (1869-1951)

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French writer, humanist, and moralist who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947....
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Elegji

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Përse dëgjimi im nuk di më të dallojë të vërtetën dhe gënjeshtrën, ai do fjalë të reja, të mbytura, të huaja, që ti nuk i njeh......
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The New Paris

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This beautiful sight, which I enjoyed in the full sunshine, completely riveted my eyes; but I scarcely knew where I could set my foot, for the winding paths were neatly covered with a blue sand......
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Curbelo blen një paketë cigare përditë dhe ua shpërndan të gjithëve me të mbërritur. Nga mirësia ? Aspak. Sipas një qarkore qeveritare amerikane......
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The whole secret and magic of her beauty lay just in these tiny, infinitely elegant movements, in her smile, in the play of her face, in her rapid glances at us, in the combination......
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Pak për sytë jeshile

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Figura gjethesh të jeshilta mbi ajër, sa nis t’i shkel tutje më ikin......
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Saharaja

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Kur hyn dielli e kur hesht thëllimi, Shkretëtirë e shkretë mbetet shkretë. ...
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Imazh shpirtëror...

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In The Spring

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Under the foliage, which was still rather scanty, the tall, thick, bright green grass was inundated by the sun, and the air was full of insects that were also making love to one another, and birds were singing in all directions....
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Whibley's Spirit

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Under these more favourable conditions the Spirit plucked up wonderfully, and talked everybody's head off. It could never have been a cheerful companion......
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On Contentedness Of Mind

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So even Epicurus thinks that those who are desirous of honour and glory should not rust in inglorious ease, but use their natural talents in public life for the benefit of the community at large......
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Appearances, nevertheless, were calmer than ever, Rodolphe having succeeded in carrying out the adultery after his own fancy; and at the end of six months, when the spring-time came......
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The oriole in her nest-building seems more fickle than most other birds. I have known orioles several times to begin a nest and then leave it and go elsewhere....
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All the Fruit...

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Have to stay on the shoulders. Steadiness is essential. ...
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Për Nënën time!

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Vëre dorën në plagët e mia të merituara, engjëll flokargjend. Ah, të vdisja të mbeteshe përjetë kështu si je, mbretëreshë smeraldi... ...
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Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)

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German poet and novelist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946....
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"And there's something else. In New York there are already a dozen men who are worth a million dollars. Yes, sir, I tell you it's true, a million dollars. What do you think of that, eh?" ...
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The Human Tragedy

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In the same fashion I will pack ideas into your head that no one would have dreamed it could ever hold; and I will fill you with a new wisdom. ...
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And joy suddenly stirred in his soul, and he even stopped for a minute to take breath. "The past," he thought, "is linked with the present by an unbroken chain......
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Who Was to Blame?

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Everything that rose before the imagination of the young dreamer had for its starting-point leaps, claws, and teeth. . . ...
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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"You are a rogue with whom I have a fancy for carousing, were it to cost me a new dozen of twelve livres of Tours. How does it strike you?" ...
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The misty mornings, the pale, bright sky, the low clouds scudding under the gray dome of heaven, fitted with the moods of her soul-sickness. ...
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In spite of this magnanimity Dorothea was still smarting: perhaps as much from Celia's subdued astonishment as from her small criticisms....
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Springtime of the Soul

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Quietly the sun sounds in the rose-colored clouds by the hill. Great is the stillness of the fir forest, the serious shadows at the river. ...
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Por shtëpia ime është e djegur si atë ditë kur mbi të ra ai, aeroplani amerikan, i qëlluar nga gjermanët, prej Kalasë....
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Zhgënjimet ishin më të shpeshta. Gjatë njëfarë kohe, ai dukej i ndryshuar, më i hapur, dhe pastaj, papritur, nuk ishte më aty. ...
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What time the moon was lost behind a cloud, Hath heard a pause of silence; till the moon Emerging, a hath awakened earth and sky... ...
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The Invitation

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Where the earth and ocean meet, And all things seem only one In the universal Sun....
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The Birds of Spring

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The happiest bird of our spring, however, and one that rivals the European lark, in my estimation, is the Boblincon, or Boblink, as he is commonly called....
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To Hope

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Whene'er I wander, at the fall of night, Where woven boughs shut out the moon's bright ray... ...
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-Ky qënka bonjakllëku! Jetimi! Unë jam bonjaku sot e tutje!- Mërmëriste gjatë dhe pastaj shpërthente. ...
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In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed... ...
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Në një legjendë të harruar me dashje!!! …kohët e fundit… Si pemë Hukatun prej gjuhëve t'ftohta t'mjegullnajës......
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The place, where we settled for the summer, consisted of a wooden manor-house with columns and two small lodges; in the lodge on the left there was a tiny factory......
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The Farewell

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Lily, I fly from thee! I still am doom'd to range Thro' countries strange... ...
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"Happy the age, happy the time," he continued, "in which shall be made known my deeds of fame, worthy to be moulded in brass, carved in marble, limned in pictures, for a memorial for ever. ...
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‘What is Earth, O you, memories of horizons?’ Shrieks the dream: and, a voice whose clarity lessens, Space, has for its toy this cry: ‘I do not know!’ ...
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The advocate, obliged to follow the course of this conspiracy, and, in case of failure, intending to revenge himself upon the Guises, determined to go to Blois, where the court then was ......
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Where Ours blooming first joined together in the garden Where the songs true, and the springs are longer beautiful ... ...
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At such times he has been known to shed tears into his sustenance till it diluted to utter inefficiency....
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As a result, his uniform, which was not brand-new to start with, began to look dirty, despite all the loving care of the mother and sister to keep it clean......
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Moonlight

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Night came on. In the quiet parlor Madame Roubere was reading in the twilight in an absent-minded way, raising her, eyes whenever she heard a sound. ...
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Nerves

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"There is a great deal in nature that is mysterious and . . . terrible . . ." thought Vaxin, as he got into bed. "It's not the dead but the unknown that's so horrible."...
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Ja, ka mbaruar. Duartrokitje që thuhet të pakursyera. Valë bravosh. Shumë sy shkëlqejnë. Fytyra të shumta buzëqeshin. Alexandrët përshëndesin, përkulen....
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A Night Battle, over a Week Since

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And still the broken, clear and clouded heaven—and still again the moonlight pouring silvery soft its radiant patches over all....
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-Është fëmija jonë, djali i vetëm i mbetur nga ajo shtëpi martire.Nuk kemi ne këtu shtëpi që të ketë përjetuar fatin e shtëpisë së bashkëfshatarit tonë, shokut tonë......
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Cilët janë atë që vuajnë? Unë nuk i njoh, por janë njerzit e mi. ...
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Veç një pasqyrë do gjesh në duar. Do shohësh veten, reflektim. Se ishe ti thesari im. ...
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She replied: "You must be careful; it is late, the sun is setting; you will catch more cold and that would be a serious thing in your condition." ...
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Pragnatë shiu

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Jashtë shiu i fundprillit vazhdon të bjerë me ritmin e pandryshueshëm të rrëmbimit....
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Whibley's Spirit

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"I apologise," returned the Major coldly; "we will say a blessed spirit. I decline to play whist with spirits of any kind; and I advise you, sir, if you intend giving many exhibitions ......
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The Lottery of Death

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"We've got to before we're too weak to do it," replied Clayton. "He'd be awful by tomorrow, after a day under that broiling sun." ...
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Some days afterwards one or two other corps; and then, still afterwards, a good part of Sherman’s immense army, brought up from Charleston, Savannah, &c. ...
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"Por njerëzit kanë nxjerrë shkas që isha ende i paditur dhe madje në arrati, thjesht për të më futur frikën dhe vazhduar të më rrjepin. Sa herë që dikush futej në fshat, vinin të më lajmëronin ..."...
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Sikur!

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C'mrekulli do te kishte qene sikur te jepnin qe sot doreheqjen presidenti dhe cdo lloji ministri! ...
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Baraka e kopshtit të mollëve

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Baraka e kopshtit të mollëve kishte qënë dikur parajsa ime tokësore. Gjithshka ishte e ngritur pa kujdes. E vogël si një shtëpizë përrallash, me mure të rrënuara....
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Yjet zbehen. Xixëllimat e fundit shuhen dhe ndërkohë dielli ia beh duke shtruar kristale qelqi mbi majat e fijeve të barit. ...
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Ra dielli e ndriti dhenë e ri, rrajë të shkyeme, lisa të përçamë e sosjen në vetëdijen time. ...
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"The Master," said Lazarus, with a rigid manner, "the Master is a great gentleman. He would turn no tired creature into the street....
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Silent as night is, and as deep! There walks a sentinel at thy gate Whose heart is heavy and desolate... ...
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Qe te blerte mbeten ne cdo stine, Qe nuk ka c'u ben acari i eger Me debore e shi e suferine. ...
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Battle of the Little Big Horn

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Custer was a man of intelligence--nervous, energetic, proud. His honesty and sincerity were beyond dispute....
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Influence in society, however, is a capital which has to be economized if it is to last....
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Poema e Mjerimit

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Mjerimi ka vulën e vet të shëmtueme; asht e neveritshme, e keqe, e turpshme... ...
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Exiles

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How can my words hurt her poor body that rots in the grave? Do you think I do not pity her cold blighted love for me? I fought against her spirit while she lived to the bitter end....
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The Dark Flower

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For love--for the illusion, the mystery, all that made love beautiful; for youth, and the poetry of it; just for the sake of the black still night itself, and the scent of that flower--dark flower of passion......
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'"Had been," did I say? she is charming now! Look, look, what eyes!' ...
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Dale! Pasuria apo njerëzit më shumë?Unë nuk kam asnjërën.Kam vetëm këtë shpirtin tim. Këtë kam perëndi e pasuri.Do më mjaftojë për të ecur në jetë? Ku i dihet… fatit! ...
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Këndo derisa të pëlcasiësh si kripa në flakë vajto po të duash... ...
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The Other Gods

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The moon's light flickers, as earth's gods dance against it; I shall see the dancing forms of the gods that leap and howl in the moonlight... The light is dimmer and the gods are afraid..." ...
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Dreams in the WitchHouse

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Gilman's dreams consisted largely in plunges through limitless abysses of inexplicably coloured twilight and baffingly disordered sound; abysses......
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A Bad Business

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"O-o-oh . . . Queen of Heaven!" there is a sound of an old man sighing. "I see nothing, my good soul, nothing. Oh the darkness, the darkness!...
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Natyrisht, gjakatarët koha i lë pas dore. Vijnë Homerët dhe luftojnë me njeri-tjetrin. Pandehin se vriten për lavdinë e Iliadave. ...
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There is a two-fold Silence- sea and shore- Body and soul. One dwells in lonely places... ...
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What the Moon Brings

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And as I ran along the shore, crushing sleeping flowers with heedless feet and maddened ever by the fear of unknown things and the lure of the dead faces, I saw that the garden had no end under that moon......
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Hanë Gjaku

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I suellën shpinën hanës edhe ujit të Drinit; u drejtuen nëpër zall kah rruga e Qafë Hardhis qi çon në qytet. Nuk çilën gojë për shum kohë....
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Dua të vdes ta kuptoj dorëheqjen!!! Ç'do të thotë të vajtosh Kur brenda teje gulshojnë agimet. ...
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The Possessed

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'And please believe me, I wasn't laughing at you just now when I told you you were good. I spoke plainly, without fine phrases and I can't endure them. But that's all nonsense....
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A Nightmare

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"They complain of the decline of religious feeling among the people. . ." he sighed. "I should rather think so! They'd better foist a few more priests like this one on them!" ...
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Imprisoned with the Pharaos

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The red sun sank low, bringing the relentless chill of Egyptian dusk; and as it stood poised on the world's rim like that ancient god of Heliopolis - Re-Harakhte, the Horizon-Sun - we saw silhouetted against its......
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The Country Of Elusion

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Mary was one of the princesses of Bohemia. In the first place, it was a royal and a daring thing to have been named Mary. There are twenty Fifines and Heloises to one Mary in the Country of Elusion. ...
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A Silent Night Ramble

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Their costumes had a dirt-stain’d uniformity; most had been originally gray; some had articles of our uniform, pants on one, vest or coat on another; I think they were mostly Georgia and North Carolina boys. ...
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Impression De Voyage

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Ithaca's cliff, Lycaon's snowy peak, And all the flower-strewn hills of Arcady. ...
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Vija e Vdekjes

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- Të futem në varr dhe të nxjerr gjyshin prej varrit? Se kështu e do ligji!....Dhe atë që do ligji e do edhe Zoti…. Apo jo? ...
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The Unnamable

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Twilight had now approached, but neither of us felt any wish to cease speaking. Manton seemed unimpressed by my arguments, and eager to refute them, having that confidence in his own opinions......
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Winter: A Dirge

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While, tumbling brown, the burn comes down, And roars frae bank to brae; And bird and beast in covert rest......
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Years turn and turn, at each new turn reborn, New imagined by redeemers new......
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"To be sure!" I thought, delighted. "That is an idea! C'est raison," I hummed, going to my study to write to Ivan Ivanitch. "C'est raison, c'est raison." ...
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"This way, your excellency, please. Your excellency won't be disturbed here," said a particularly pertinacious, white-headed old Tatar with immense hips and coattails gaping widely behind. "Walk in, your excellency," he said to Levin......
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I suppose that a man of intelligence may have great curiosity. I have not had it, lacking the courage. I have preferred to leave my mind incomplete, that is my affair, and every one is free to embark either on a great ship in full sail, or on a fisherman's vessel....
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"It was all right when you took it!" he exclaims indignantly. "Why don't you think what you are doing? You go about things in such a slap-dash style. You'd get a scaffolding pole entangled you would!" ...
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Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957)

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Chilean educator, cultural minister, diplomat, and poet, first Latin American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1945)....
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It would be very delightful to have your portrait to hang on the wall in my study in the country where I often spend long months entirely alone. Is the request indiscreet? If not, a thousand thanks in advance. ...
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Eci përmes hullisë së gjatë që çon tek të vdekurit e heshtur. Ëndërroj për borën, për kuajt prej zjarri, për dimrin e fjalëve. ...
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Paul Auster interview

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Paul Auster's novels are adored in Europe, but at home in America it's a different story. Luckily, he takes it as a compliment... ...
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-Djemo! Për një ditë, për një të vetëme, e paguan treiqind e kusur ditë, populli ushtrinë. - Ja nisi komandanti. ...
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Çfarë shkruaj!!!

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I kupton dot kumbimet e këmbanave-ato nuk lajmërojnë vetëm vdekjen! I shijon dot kallot e kripura të anijes-përjetoi lirinë dhe I shkoi deri në fund horizontit! ...
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The Lottery Ticket

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And he began thinking how nice it would be in late autumn to go abroad somewhere to the South of France . . . to Italy . . . . to India! ...
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"The tantalizingly familiar note in his voice puzzled and interested her with a cumulative force. "I have a very definite idea what you are like. Not being a poet, I'm afraid I can't put it into words." ...
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"Isn't it tiresome not to be able to get rid of this bronchitis? And here is midsummer! This winter I shall go to Mentone. Health before everything." ...
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Paris is today in outward aspect as radiant, as prosperous, as instinct with her own peculiar genius as if her sky had never known a cloud. ...
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The Silent Night

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Throughout the world, "Silent Night" which has been translated into more than 200 languages, is an anchor for Christmas celebrations....
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At Christmas Time

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" And we wish them a happy Christmas; we are alive and well, and I wish you the same, please the Lord . . . the Heavenly King. " ...
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Historia përsëritet

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Historia përsëritet shekull pas shekulli, por njeriu s'mëson asgjë. Luftrat nuk janë ndonjë shpikje e re. Qysh n ere. Qysh në kohët e Homerit, trojanët vriteshin me helenët për shkakun e një gruaje të bukur. ...
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An'embanë bukuri, komb i lirë, tokë e lir shqipëtar e Shqipëri sa të lumtur, sa të mirë! ...
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Pa një grusht nga toka jonë, -Balt’ nga balt’ e vetë – Të ma sillni e ta vini Drejt në zemr’ e shkretë... ...
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The Soldier's Home

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Had been so lovely, brilliant, fresh, and green, And guess'd some infant hand had placed it there. ...
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The Paradise Of Thieves

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The banker and his beautiful English daughter were staying at the hotel attached to Muscari's restaurant; that was why it was his favourite restaurant. ...
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Two days after the wedding the married pair left. Charles, on account of his patients, could not be away longer. Old Rouault had them driven back in his cart, and himself accompanied them as far as Vassonville....
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Çohi të Dekun

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Venu shej ti fjalve t'mija, Pse do t'vijë po lum zotnija, Koha n't'cilën Shqyptarija, Zojë n'vetvehte ka me dalë......
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Po ku ka lindur, në pyeç, ky njeri aq i hollë e aq i çuditshëm? Pa dyshim, do të jetë rritur në “Rue de la Paix” të Parisit, në “Strand” të Londonit a në “Grahen, të Vjenës”. ...
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The Unnamable

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Besides, he was almost sure that nothing can be really "unnamable." It didn't sound sensible to him. ...
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In the sunlight, against the green duckweed, their whiteness was truly marvellous; difficult to believe that they were not white all through....
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The sturdy figure of the old trader came up through the garden; Loise, native fashion, walking behind him. ...
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Unë, biri yt, Kosovë

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Unë, biri yt, Kosovë t'i njoh dëshirat e heshtura, t'i njoh ëndrrat, erërat e fjetura me shekuj......
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Atdheu nuk janë as flamujt as himnet, as fjalimet e stërditura mbi heronjtë emblematikë, por një grusht vendesh dhe personash që popullojnë kujtimet tona dhe i ngjyrosin ato me mall, është afshi dhe ndjesia e nxehtë se, kudo që të jemi, ekziston një vatër në të cilën mund të kthehemi një ditë. ...
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Both belonged to moderately rich families in Beauvais, a town in which the gentle manners and loyalty of the provinces are transmitted as a species of birthright....
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Ngriti sytë drejt çatisë prej llamarine që shndriste, e nxehur në përvëlim, dhe iu hodhi një sy orendive të zvenitura, pllakave të dyshemesë : ca tulla të pluhurta të mbuluara me lëkura të grisura kafshësh... ...
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Qiej mermeri pa peshë, dallëndyshe kundër rrymës pa mbërritje. ...
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The remarkable feature was the eyes. It might have been, of course, that they alone caught the light and held it, rendering them uncannily large and brilliant. ...
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In Praise of Reading and Fiction

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I never felt like a foreigner in Europe or, in fact, anywhere. In all the places I have lived, in Paris, London, Barcelona, Madrid, Berlin, Washington, New York, Brazil, or the Dominican Republic, I felt at home. ...
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Vizione të Qarta

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Një libër i ri nga Pjerin Thomai....
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Ai ndjente përçmimin më të thellë për këta të rinj Britanikë me fytyrë të brishtë, me zë të butë ; por nga ana tjetër... ...
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E t’ngele moti e sheklli mbarë t’rroposet, E t’vijë dita e gjyqit t’rruzullimit......
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The winter passed waiting for this. Mademoiselle Rouault was busy with her trousseau. Part of it was ordered at Rouen, and she made herself chemises and nightcaps after fashion-plates that she borrowed....
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Innocents Of Broadway

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"'Been having a glorious time, Mr. Peters,' says he. 'Took in all the sights. I tell you New York is the onliest only. Now if you don't mind,' says he, 'I'll lie down on that couch and doze off for about nine minutes before Mr. Tucker comes....
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Johannes V. Jensen (1873-1950)

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Danish novelist, poet, and essayist, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1944....
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A Dream for Winter

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In the winter, we shall travel in a little pink railway carriage With blue cushions. ...
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Ajo luftoi me vdekjen plot gjashtëmuaj.Pa gojë dhe pa ngrënë gjë.Me ujë dhe lëngje ja mbajtën frymën.Në muajt e fundit kishte prerë dhe ato pakë fjalë që përmëndëte....
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Një borë e paqtë mbi të shkuemen do të doja të binte e të më mbulonte varrët e dhimbjes që ende më mundojnë. ...
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Heart of Darkness

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The sun set; the dusk fell on the stream, and lights began to appear along the shore. The Chapman lighthouse, a three-legged thing erect on a mud-flat, shone strongly....
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The Moon-Bog

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That morning and afternoon I wandered alone through the sun-gilded village and talked now and then with idle laborers, for Barry was busy with the final plans for beginning his work of drainage....
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The Inauguration

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The tragic splendor of his death, purging, illuminating all, throws round his form, his head, an aureole that will remain and will grow brighter through time, while history lives, and love of country lasts....
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Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. ...
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Mjerimi asht një njollë e pashlyeme në ballë të njerzimit që kalon nëpër shekuj. ...
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Of Her Hair

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Sapphires, rubies, pearls — my hand shall never tire Of strewing these through your thick mane — how lavishly! ...
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Louis Napoleon

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Shall on thy dead and crownless forehead place The better laurels of a soldier's crown... ...
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The Cloud

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The sanguine Sunrise, with his meteor eyes, And his burning plumes outspread... ...
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Kënga e Frosinës

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Mbi një shkëmb te gjoli i kaltër Pasha fshan prej dhëmbshurie. ...
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Fascinattion

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"Yes, this country is beautiful. But no country satisfies one when they are far from the one they love." ...
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Then the young Prince answered with a proud smile:--"I am the son of the King and my name is Yamato, and I have been sent by my father as the avenger of evil to bring death to all rebels!...
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The night is black and the forest has no end; a million people thread it in a million ways. ...
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Mali hesht - dhe në heshtje qesh. E unë vuej - dhe në vuejtje vdes. Po unë, kur? heu! kur kam për t'u qesh? Apo ndoshta duhet më parë të vdes? ...
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The First Snowfall

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She gazes at the sky full of sunshine and swallows, at the zigzag summits of the Esterel over yonder, and at the sea, the blue, calm, beautiful sea, close beside her. ...
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Aspiration

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The wind pursued the little bush, And drove away the leaves November left; then clambered up And fretted in the eaves. ...
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And wind-flowers and violets Which yet join not scent to hue......
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Nën Flamujt e Melankolisë

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Dhe kështu kjo komedi na plas dellin e gazit, nsa prej marazit pëlcasim. ...
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Parfumi i Arjanës

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Mirëpo,zhgënjimi erdhi shpejt.Më tej,kur fushata nisi të intesifikohej,ai fjalor aq i ëmbël,ajo sjellje shëmbëllore,u fshih,u zhduk! ...
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Compliments Of The Season

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They overtook him just as he and Betsy were entering Costigan's Casino. They deflected him, and shoved the newspaper under his nose. Fuzzy could read--and more. ...
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Roads of Destiny

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"Mademoiselle," he said, and he marvelled to find his words flowing easily before so much elegance and beauty. "You have heard me say I was a shepherd. I have also had the fancy, at times, that I am a poet....
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Këmbët e diellit Shkundin ajsbergë kronikë... ...
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Spirits of the Dead

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And the stars shall not look down From their high thrones in the Heaven With light like hope to mortals given, But their red orbs, without beam... ...
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Vjeshta në parakalim

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Vjeshtë në natyrë dhe vjeshtë ndër ftyra tona. Rënkoni dëshirat fëmitë ejetës së vafun... ...
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Interviste me shkrimtarin Artan Mullaj

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Makineria e këtij udhëtimi ishte pikërisht ai shkëmb gjigand varri, i gdhendur si kryq, mbi Varrin e Pagëzimit. ...
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The Festival

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When I sounded the archaic iron knocker I was half afraid. Some fear had been gathering in me, perhaps because of the strangeness of my heritage, and the bleakness of the evening, and the queerness of the silence......
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– E ç’keni vënë re ju ? Shpresoj se ju e kuptoni çfarë gjërash të pakëndshme paraqet kjo çështje ?... ...
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A lazy isle which nature, generous, Stocks with weird trees and fruits of strange delight... ...
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Kanga e Përndimit

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Kangë Përndimi, kangë njeriu të dehun nga besimi në vete Kanga e tij shpres' e bukur, me flatra të një tjetër jete......
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The Duel

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'Again!' he muttered, grinding his teeth. 'No matter! I've been challenged and I'll make use of my rights. I'll fire a third time . . . whatever happens.' ...
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He must be the Sophist, whom we are seeking; no other name can possibly be right. ...
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Withstands until the sweet assault Their chivalry consumes, While he, victorious, tilts away To vanquish other blooms. ...
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My own belief in the possibility of such convenient compromise must, I fear, have led to an ethical relapse, for there recurs to my mind a somewhat painful scene of a few months' later date......
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Kanga e qytetit te huej

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Ambelsinen, ambelsinen e jetes kerko ta gjesh se e hidhuna e jetes vjen vete. Prandaj jane dritat me ngjyra qe ta kujtojne: mos harro ta shijosh ambelsinen e jetes! ...
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Përzjerë me dritë, fllad i lehtë Gjetheve, mbrëmja belbëzon Dhe vargje derdhen nëpër fletë Si vesë kristal, që mëngjesin zgjon... ...
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Angels when the sun is hottest May be seen the sands among, Stooping, plucking, sighing, flying; Parched the flowers they bear along. ...
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Asaj vere të jashtëzakonshme, në festat e Mirafloresit, njerëzit nuk vallëzonin më valse, korridos, bluz, bolero apo huaraças, sepse i kishte mbytur mambo....
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The Butterfly's Day

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Where parties, phantom as herself, To Nowhere seemed to go In purposeless circumference, As 't were a tropic show. ...
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Oh ! mos t'genjejnë mendja kot mean u madhnue Në qofte se vedni kryetar t'ka vue, Drejtsi po s'pate, emen s'ke as nder Se në je porsi rreshiqi i mbushun me ere......
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The sun rises from the beautiful one's eyebrows. The beautiful one's teeth are just like pearls. To share beautiful food at Beauty's table is beautiful. ...
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Në kthim ai avion i goditur prej kundërajrorëve gjermanë, të vendosur në bedenat e Kalasë së lashtë të Beratit, bëri të pabërën mbi një shtëpi shqiptare, që nuk kishte asnjë lidhje......
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Two Little Soldiers

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And they went on, side by side, their minds full of dim memories of home. They saw the fields, the hedges, the forests, and beaches. ...
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Queen Hortense

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"If you wish, Cimme, I would be willing to exchange something else for this wine; it suits my stomach marvellously." ...
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Shi në Mitilini

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Mbizotëronin te gjitha llojet e haloreve, diku e gjelbra nga dendësia e thellësia ish bere kaçurrela, kaçurrela. ...
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Poema e Mjerimit

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Mjerimi s'ka gëzim, por ka vetëm dhimba, dhimba paduruese që të bajnë të çmendesh... ...
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"You've succeeded with your devil's tricks," said Savély with a wave of his hand. "No mistake; I am right! Well, you'd better look out!"...
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Hanë Gjaku

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- Ti s' e njef ambëlsin e dridhun qi më rrëshqet në zëmër kur prirëm plot habi kah stina misterjoze e fëmijnis së kalueme. Ti çmon vetëm kohën e tashme, edhe je e përkulun me të gjitha deshiret të tuja kah koha e ardhëshme... ...
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Dhe unë kisha përshtypjen se ajo fliste në një lloj ëndrre, njëlloj sikur të mos e kishte marrë vesh ç’po bënte, njëlloj sikur dikush tjetër të kishte hyrë tek ajo apo ta kishte shtrënguar për të dalë nga heshtja e saj. ...
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Atë moment gjyshja e parandjeu se ai fëmijë do të kishte vuajtje të mëdha në jetë. Kudo ku ajo hidhte sytë, i dukej se në atë vend, tamam aty, do të duhej të ishte i nipi......
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Për një shpartallim të përkthimit të vjetër

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Letërsia synon që ta kthejë çdo lexues në një shpëtimtar të njerëzimit, në një Krisht që braktis mbështjelljen e tij trupore për t’u endur në qiell si shpirt dhe frymë....
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"Kindly refrain from reflections upon literature!" cried Optimov hotly. "I am a literary man, and I will allow no one to make reflections upon literature!...
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Diell mbi Çelëvjollcë. Rreze në xhama E hap dritaren. Dikur, fluturoj në Qiell. ...
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“Varri i pagëzimit” dhe çvarrosja e një epoke

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Një roman nga Artan Mullaj që gërsheton të kaluarën me të sotmen. ...
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"I should really be glad," he once confessed to me, "to get a little time to myself. She means kindly, but it is a strain....
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Një serenatë për qytetin tim

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Afërdita nga valët e detit doli. Dea në shkëmbmermer gjalloi. Perëndesha e bukurisë korçare Lindi në shpellën e një kitare. ...
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"I think it a beautiful age," insisted the stranger; "young enough not to have lost the joy of youth, old enough to have learnt sympathy." ...
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Whitebrow

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It was already getting light, and when the wolf reached her home in the thick aspen wood, each aspen tree could be seen distinctly, and the woodcocks were already awake......
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Heroizmi i Grave

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E nesërmja u gdhi në ankth e në ankth po fluturonte. Gjëmimet e artilerisë nuk u dëgjuan kurrkund. A thua të ishin ndërprerë me urdhër. ...
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Faber to publish new Mario Vargas Llosa novel

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Faber has signed up the new novel from the freshly-crowned winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Mario Vargas Llosa. ...
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Autumn

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What images once were, they were not banished by Mother Nature, like her days that paled and vanished... ...
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A devotion said at morning, noon, and evening, at the sound of a bell. Here, the evening prayer. ...
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Kёpucёt

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Kёpucёt janё bulime sythash e punila tё njomё nё kryqin e harrumё pa Krisht tё besimit. Ato dinё edhe tё dashurojnё. Betohen nё heshtje se njohin sekretin se si bahet paqe me vdekjen....
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Heaven is what I cannot reach!

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It can't be summer, -- that got through; It 's early yet for spring; There 's that long town of white to cross Before the blackbirds sing. ...
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The Invitation

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'In magic cave or monk's retreat, 'Whilst the bright world is at her feet; 'Whilst to her boundless range is given, 'By night, by day, the lights of heaven... ...
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Era e kandëshme e luleve të tërhek me u futë mbrenda. Hyn lehtas, por ngec mbrenda për jetë. Qeh pata vendosë që të mos flas ma për të, por nuk e mbajta fjalën. Duket se përnjimend e dashunoj....
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Nëpër telat e çakordum t' mjerimit, si e si mos ta shprehë dëshirën e fundit. ...
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"Nuk e kam njohur kurrë lumturinë. Tani më vjen keq që ka vdekur nga dora ime. Jam aq e lumtur sa nuk mendoj të jem ndonjëherë kështu… " ...
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Gooseberries

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'Country life has its conveniences,' he would sometimes say. 'You sit on the verandah and you drink tea, while your ducks swim on the pond, there is a delicious smell everywhere, and . . . and the gooseberries are growing.'...
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The Dark Flower

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Cicely." The words grew indistinct even as she read them, and the boy's face all blurred....
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Limits

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If there is a limit to all things and a measure And a last time and nothing more and forgetfulness......
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Song of Autumn

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I love the greenish light of your long eyes, Sweet beauty, but today all to me is bitter... ...
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Illusions

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Is law and the world,-- Then first shalt thou know......
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Because of the Dollars

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"Well, there are men who are born good just as others are born witty. What I mean is his nature."...
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Përnjiherë u përplasa për dheu tue piskëllue nga dhimbja e hundës që m'ishte çamë, nga duert që m'ishin djegë dhe nga grushti i njerkës....
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Mario V. Llosa, Nobel in Literature 2010

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Cited by the Swedish Academy for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt and defeat"......
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Bukuri e virtyt

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E virtyti asht shemllesa Ajo halë qe s' lodhë stuhija; Drandofillja, qe e kohës kmesa... ...
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Niagara e Mërgimit

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Në Niagara Falls vijnë çdo ditë me mijëra vizitorë nga vende të ndryshme të botës.Secili vjen me bagazhin e vet pamor dhe atë ndjesor....
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To One in Paradise

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A green isle in the sea, love, A fountain and a shrine... ...
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Poema e dhimbjes

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Doli plaka majë malit të shoh ç'bën vallë njerëzia. S'di se kujt t'ia qajë hallin, pse në zi ra Shqipëria? ...
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A Positive Romance

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"Hello!" I exclaimed. "How long since you have been a Positivist?" ...
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A grateful feeling to the sense; Friendship may cast her arms around... ...
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Nuk mendon për neve! Për familjen! Je shtylla e shtëpisë dhe më ke marrë mendjen e djemurisë, mavriu ti!.”Atdheu, grua, Atdheu!”, më thotë. ...
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Go, speed the stars of Thought On to their shining goals;-- The sower scatters broad his seed; The wheat thou strew'st be souls....
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Now no roses pluck. for thee, Though 'tis springtime, Fanny mine, Dreary autumn 'tis to me! ...
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Due me fluturue mbi bjeshkë me pëllumba, i thashë tim-vëllau gjak-nxehtë. "S’asht ajo punë për ne!" ...
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Ravanne was furious, for he had felt on his breast the point of his adversary's sword, but so lightly that he might have taken it for the button of a foil....
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The Lion and the Sun

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"Let us drink to the prosperity of Persia!" said Kutsyn. "We Russians love the Persians. Though we are of another faith, yet there are common interests, mutual, so to say, sympathies... progress ......
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Cold rain where sweet grass was; And clouds like sheep Stream o'er the steep......
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Atë natë, si dhe nët të tjera, pashë n'adërr sikur e kisha fitue prap lirin dhe sikur kisha hymë në shkollë....
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Ja kopshtet... rimbushen rishmi statuja Me shpurë e skllevër t’kalosh... Kur shpata të bjerë, kur zjarri, rrëmuja Tempujt t’i vënë përposh... ...
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About Love

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'You and I did not set fire to the place,' he said softly, 'and you see we are not condemned, and not in prison.' ...
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Unë mbledh si kallinjtë amanetet, i bëj tufë dhe qaj. Të vrarët nuk vdesin!...
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Zemër Nëne

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Do ketë punë djali, që vate kaq kohë dhe nuk më ka dërguar dy gjisht kartë. Nuk më ka marrë as në thirrje, as me një telograf! E ku rri Fania! Floriri i nënës! Nuk rri ai pa i dërguar dy gjisht kartë nënës, nuk rri!...
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Nëse nuk munda brengës t’i bëj ballë Zjarr përsëri unë kam në shpirt të djegur Nëse më i vdekur jam nga çdo i gjallë, Mirë pra, m’i gjallë jam se çdo i vdekur....
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One Day

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A fortnight later, there was a large party at the club, in honour of Aksel Aaroe. Every one wished to be there, every one wished to bid their popular friend welcome home....
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Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)

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Pearl S. Buck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938....
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"Varri i Pagëzimit"

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"Varri i Pagëzimit" nga Artan Mullaj.

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Këtu ! Ja filxhani yt, dashuria ime... Por ka shumë terr. Nuk shohim asgjë. ...
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Lightning

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It's too simple, and the weather's too hot; you can all do without me. I have my duty; but I will be proud, as others have been, to set it aside. ...
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Larg vulgut Ynëzot...

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Dheu i të parëve fole e barbarëve Prijna Kqyrna Folna falna nuk ka më mizore se marrëzi e Ceazarve... ...
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A Chameleon

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"He put a cigarette in her face, your honour, for a joke, and she had the sense to snap at him. . . . He is a nonsensical fellow, your honour!"...
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Dita asht e mundshme ndër katunde e ato biseda mbramjeje disi janë nji pushim e nji argtim. E ndërsa dielli prendon e hana del, kroni i mbushë buljerat nji nga nji tue kendue. ...
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A s’je kufomë që tremb të gjallin? Për gjallë një fjalë askush s’ta thotë, Eja, hyr, na shuaj mallin, Si nuk t’u rënd e zeza botë?!...
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A Family Affair

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"In my family, we last long, and I am sure that, unless I meet with an accident, I shall not die until I am very old."...
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Gjithçka duket ndryshe Dhe gjithçka duhet të shkojë Në dobi të njerëzisë ...
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S'po lind Dielli

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Po rilind Dardania Antike Unë ndjej ringjallje Dardani e Re do e pagëzoj! ...
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Mbrëmje Vjeshte

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Vetëm e vetëm mos zvetëno këngën e zogut të lumtur Pas pranverës së dashurisë Në këtë mbrëmje të thellë vjeshte......
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Burgosur Në një legjendë të harruar me dashje!!! …kohët e fundit…...
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The Lesson

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Until one day I received a letter addressed to the care of my publishers. It bore the Swiss postmark, and opening it and turning to the signature I sat wondering for the moment......
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Kandidati

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Dua t'i kthej fytyrën vendlindjes sime drejt progresit, drejt zhvillimit…drejt Europës. Shënonte e renditte. Një…dy…tre…Krah tyre, lart e poshtë, vizatonte luledele. E çuditshme? ...
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From the sun that round me rolled In its autumn tint of gold, From the lightning in the sky......
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Djaj të lumtur

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Në jakën e xhaketës së tij ndrisnin si të qëndisura me fije ari tri shkronja të mëdha, të ndara me pikë njëra nga tjetra: O. F. M....
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For whom? — Yesterday was summer; here is autumn That mysterious noise sounds like a departure....
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An Enigma

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The happiest day -- the happiest hour My sear'd and blighted heart hath known... ...
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Jan' lartsu kullat Ku flejn' heronjt e pamposhtjes!!! Dhe guri qesh!!!...
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In an Hotel

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He's a perfect nuisance, that's what he is. And, good Lord, such a man, too! Young, good-looking and intellectual. . . . ...
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O Autumns, Winters, Springs! Seasons of mire! Soul-drowsing times! I love you. Take my praise ...
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Çfarë nuk kanë parë kaushët e Argjiroshkretës. Që nga koha e asaj, që thonë se e bëri kala. Nga koha e Argjirosë. Kushedi sa e bukur do të ketë qenë malulja!...
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The Country Of Elusion

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Mary was one of the princesses of Bohemia. In the first place, it was a royal and a daring thing to have been named Mary. ...
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Hanë Gjaku

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- Kjo prirje e jote shpirtnore me dashunue kalesën në shfagjet e saja të largta e të zbêta, e m'u ndry mbrënda teje në nji adhurim vetmitar......
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" Vend i mallkuar, mendoi ai i nxehur paq, e përse djallin duhet të më ndodhte mua kjo histori, mua që sapo kam mbërritur në këtë vend ? "...
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After Twenty Years

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"It sounds pretty interesting," said the policeman. "Rather a long time between meets, though, it seems to me. Haven't you heard from your friend since you left?"...
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Sythet e kobit të zi, Degë e dhimbjes m’i mban. Te ky gjoks, o Perëndi, Sythi sythit nuk m’i ngjan. ...
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Transients In Arcadia

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Superfluous, watchful, pneumatically moving waiters hover near, supplying every want before it is expressed. The temperature is perpetual April....
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Lumi ose hesht ose murmurin përherë e farfurijnë përbrenda. ...
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"Excuse me," said the red-nosed man to the young fellow with the bundle, rather suddenly; "whom have I the honour to be talking to?"...
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Një mbrëmje...

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Nga njëri krah, sodisja perëndimin, Nga tjetri, nëpër rërë, hijen time....
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Yon curving spray of purple clematis Whose gorgeous dye outflames the Tyrian King, And foxgloves with their nodding chalices, But that one narciss which the startled Spring. ...
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Heart of Darkness

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The thin smoke had blown away, we were clear of the snag, and looking ahead I could see that in another hundred yards or so I would be free ......
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Ai ndjente përçmimin më të thellë për këta të rinj Britanikë me fytyrë të brishtë, me zë të butë ; por nga ana tjetër......
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My Day In Court

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The smile died instantaneously and he leaned forward to stare at me as at some apparition....
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The Danger Of Being Too Innocent

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However, the good lord of Montcontour interrupted the jokers and the wits, because it was necessary that his son should occupy himself in well-doing....
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At Verona

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Nay peace: behind my prison's blinded bars I do possess what none can take away My love, and all the glory of the stars. ...
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Nëse ti nuk rrënqethesh, Nëse ti nuk dyshon më, Nëse çehrja jote nuk ndryshon kurrë... ...
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"Shoku im i vetëm është njerëzimi dhe natyra. Shoku im i humbur është qielli dhe pabesia." ...
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The sun has blackened out the flame of candles. So your victorious phantom seems as one, O blazing spirit, with the deathless Sun!...
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The Woman of the Saeter

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The nearest human habitation is eight miles away, across the mountain, and not a soul comes near us. ...
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The Beggar

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He had no refuge, no roof for his head, no shelter of any kind. In summer he slept out of doors and in winter he showed remarkable skill in slipping unperceived into barns and stables....
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Largësia në kujtesë është det shkretëtire gjilpërë e ndryshkur në njomësinë e lotit i lutem vjeshtës mos të pikë bukurisë sate... ...
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– Lëre erën të fryjë në murriz. Lëre të fryjë, vogëlushja ime ! Kali i zi po rrah tokën. Mamuzi po ushton. Nuk guxoj të rri këtu. ...
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Kam një ëndërr

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Lumturia është një zakon, një zakon që mund të përqëndrohet në gjëra kimike ose në qenie njerëzore, kur unë kam me vete pilulat e mia apo miqtë e mi, nuk kam nevojë për asgjë....
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At Sea

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Night came on. The sea ran high until dawn. As the sun rose the English coast was again visible, but, as the weather had abated a little, they turned back towards the French coast......
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An Artifice

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"It happened in a provincial town, and one night when I was asleep, in that deep first sleep from which it is so difficult to rouse us, it seemed to me, in my dreams......
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Lavdi! Ç'është kjo fjalë nga mbërriti tek unë, si ka dalë ?...
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The Cost of Kindness

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"I always try to remember I am a Christian," interrupted little Mrs. Pennycoop. "I do not pretend to be a saint, but whatever I say I am always sorry for it afterwards--you know I am, George."...
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The Apparition

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"I was straining my eyes in the effort to read the superscriptions when I seemed to hear, or, rather, feel, something rustle back of me. ...
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Ai nuk u përgjigj. Mbërtheu rripat e valixhes, veshi pallton dhe hodhi një sy të shpejtë nga dhoma e gjumit para se të fikte dritën. Pastaj u kthye në sallon....
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Dead Woman's Secret

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And they loved her as they never had loved her before. They measured the depth of their grief, and thus they discovered how lonely they would find themselves....
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A Doctor's Visit

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"You are not asleep," he said. "It's beautiful weather outside. It's spring. The nightingales are singing, and you sit in the dark and think of something." ...
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On The Road

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"What nonsense!" said the bundle angrily, "We could go perfectly well. We have only nine more miles to go, mostly by the forest, and we should not get lost. . . ." ...
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Ktheja jetën gjuhës…

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Misticizmi nënkupton mister dhe mistere ka plot; por veç paaftësia s’hyn ndër to, as teprimet gazetareske që kërkojnë të shiten për letërsi, duke marrë një ton të rremë epik!...
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Camus dhe Beckett, histori absurdi në shqip

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Bëhet fjalë për dy romane, "Rënia" dhe "Malone vdes". Romani "Rënia" është botuar për herë të parë më 1956, vetëm një vit para marrjes së çmimit “Nobel”....
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Të të shtroj nga dhëmbja ime një cudi prej pikash lote, Një pluhurë të përvajshme vetëm dhëmbj' e dëshirim....
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A Street of Paris

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"Since you wished to come in a cab, you might have spared me the expense of the one that Madame Marmus took. The charge for your cab was an hour. Did you stop anywhere?"...
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Sunlight

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"Only the very stupid or the very deprived can any longer help knowing that the documents of civilization have been written in blood and tears, blood and tears no less real for being very remote. ...
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In Exile

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He was a young man then, busy and careful; he used to mow himself and catch fish and ride sixty miles on horseback. ...
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Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)

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One of the greatest American playwrights, restless and bold experimenter, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936. ...
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In the winter, we shall travel in a little pink railway carriage With blue cushions. ...
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Ju jeni aty. Si njё Perёndeshё e Olimpit, me njё fanitje qё xixёllon nga yjet e rinj tё gjithёsisё, mban nё duar rrufetё. ...
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S'e kam fjalën që dhe varri i tij vdes dhe emri Shndërrohet në barë të kalbur harrese. Por njeriu tradhtohet vazhdimisht nga njeriu. ...
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Atje tej, harqe, kolona, përbindsha bronzi bëjnë të dridhet vështrimi ; Atje tej, duke iu afruar tramvajit, turma flet gjuhën e atij që ka ikur....
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Mother's Hands

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Mother, mother, all my life I must be grateful to you for having treasured this up for me till now, for before I should not have understood it." ...
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Nën të njëjtin yll jemi ndeshur a mund të rrimë pra të ndarë, si stoli me trungun e heshtur, mbjellë shumë vite më parë?...
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Do you want that I kiss you while I'm dying? ...
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The Commision in Lunacy

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Do you suppose that I was not struck to the heart by the insulting politeness by which she made me measure the imaginary distance which her noble birth sets between us?...
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Secili ishte në vendin e vet, i lirë për një lëvizje të vogël. Shijoja sistemin e renditjes, thjeshtësinë pothuaj teorike të ansamblesë, rendin shoqëror. ...
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Night tributes the sky with silver constellations......
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To the Sun God

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Until the fingers of a master entice A prettier music, thus mist and dreams ... ...
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"Luck"

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"Please do. And I'll come with you. Captain Lester and the others won't be here for half an hour yet, and I want to show you some curious-looking stuff I saw on the beach this morning....
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The Night-Wind

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I sat in silent musing; The soft wind waved my hair; It told me heaven was glorious, And sleeping earth was fair....
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- Ky fshat i perket Keshtjelles, kush banon apo kalon naten ne te, ne njefare menyre banon apo kalon naten ne Keshtjelle. ...
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Luigi Pirandello

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Italian author, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934 for his "bold and brilliant renovation of the drama and the stage." ...
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Pikat e shiut, lotë virgjëreshe, prishen në shtratin e lumit, avullojnë të mistershme, si britma pa dënesë....
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Ç'mallkim i rëndë, nga s'e dimë as vetë, Na paska ndjekur prapa si ndëshkim? Na mbuloi bora, pa na rënë fletët......
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Variety patter

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At length the chairman, overcoming his evident disinclination to take any sort of hand whatever in the game, rose and gently hinted at the desirability of silence....
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Puhize deti

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Të humbur, pa direkë, pa direkë, as ishuj të pasur… Por, o zemra ime, dëgjoje këngën e detarëve ! ...
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Jean Gourdon's Four Days

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And the spring, I did not care a bit about the spring! Had it borne away the sun that warmed my back, its leaves, its rays, all its May morning......
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Butterflies

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"Heaven is beautiful, Earth is ugly," The three-dimensioned preacher saith......
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Ikje

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Një zog Pëllumb a korb të jetë? Vërtitet Herë në pranverë Herë në klithje. ...
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Sjellja e të gjithëve të kujtonte sjelljen e një fluturimi zogjsh që komunikojnë ndërmjet tyre, të paktën kështu e përfytyrojmë, nëpërmjet një lloj telepatie....
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The Beautiful Night

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And when, in journeying o'er the path of life, My love I follow'd, as she onward moved... ...
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Ngritja e tij në karrierë do të jetë me siguri marramendëse. Disa parashikime arrijnë bile edhe postin e vezirit të madh. Aksionet e bronzit do të bien përsëri në mesditë. ...
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The Curious Dream

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Smiling should especially be avoided. What he might honestly consider a shining success was likely to strike me in a very different light....
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Në Urën “Bruklin” një mbrëmje

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Kam një shpresëzë në zemër, kam një gaz. Do të ndjek thirrjen e tokës, t’i shkoj pas. ...
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The Triumph Of The Donkey

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Perspective is really the comic element in everything. It has a pompous Latin name, but it is incurably Gothic and grotesque. ...
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Oh! The Public

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"It's stupid, sir! Yes! As though it's not enough killing the passengers with fumes and stuffiness and draughts, they want to strangle us with red tape, too, damn it all! He must have the ticket!...
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Love & Fame & Death

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The history of melancholia includes all of us. ...
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Në tjetër epokë kanë shtegtuar heronjtë!!! Në çast Fillon jëtëgjatsia e pavdekjes!!! ...
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A Mysterious Visit

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"Why, it is amazing-perfectly amazing. I will make a note of it. And you say even this wasn't all?"...
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Ana tjeter e Rebelimit

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Ngadalsoi gjurmët drejt varrezave të ndjenjave, njeri. Dua të vuaj me ty! Por qelqen e qytetit të nëndheshëm dëshiroj ta thyej. ...
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A Love Episode

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Her heart was rent by feelings of indignant protest and haughty anger, commingling with a secret and unconquerable pleasure, which ascended from her inner being and bereft her of her senses. ...
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Allegory

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In that perfumed country caressed by the sun, I have known, under a canopy of purple trees And palms raining idleness upon the eyes, A creole lady of private beauty. ...
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"Oh intelligent atoms, in which the Eternal Being desired to make manifest his skill and his power, you must, no doubt, taste pure joys on your planet......
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Qytet i rremë në agim Dimri

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Asfalt nën këmbë. Beton mbi kokë Vapë që të djeg si saç mbi kësulë. Furrë zjarri, që t’i ndez me dru trutë. Macja ku s’jeton më mirë se një poet. ...
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The Secret House

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You will observe there are two distinct folders, each filled with particulars of our young friend's progress along the path which leads to the gallows." ...
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Kinema “Ali Demi”

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Lotojnë ullinjtë e Ali Demit përkthyer në shqip Edhe fëmijët përlotur; një kor syçkash xixëlluese diku në Ballkan......
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The Cemetery

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Hence, since I wished to look at him as he discoursed, I found myself forced to walk with head bent, as though I had been escorting a woman. ...
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Përjashtimi në favorin tim është një shans dhe një rastësi e lumtur : kush e di ? Ndoshta vdekja do të më harrojë ! Ndoshta një harresë e fatit do të më kursejë ajo provën e fundit ! ...
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Fruitfulness

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And he became quite triumphant, repeating that he knew of no cause for self-reproach, and that his ever-growing fortune left him with an easy conscience....
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The Beauteous Flower

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My petals stand in beauteous ring, Sweet incense all around I fling... ...
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Neighbours

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"You are very welcome," he muttered, blushing till the tears came into his eyes, and not knowing how to lie or what to say. "I am delighted," he went on, trying to smile......
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Keen as midsummer's keen beyond conceiving mind of sun will stand, so strictly(over utmost him so hugely) stood my father's dream......
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A do të ishte vdekja një majëz të cilën andeja e shtyn në këndejën ? Kaq afër, kaq larg !...
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Kontinente diellore

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Nisem dëshirëplot, ëndërrimtar sy-lot, me flatra Pegasiane, Qiellit të grihosur, në mjegullën Londoniane. ...
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A Man Of Habit

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Why? Because I have got into the habit. Years ago, when I was a young man, I smoked expensive Havanas. I found that I was ruining myself....
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The Secret Agent

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He found at home the ease of his body and the peace of his conscience, together with Mrs Verloc's wifely attentions and Mrs Verloc's mother's deferential regard. ...
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The Cat And The Birds

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They replied: "We are all very well, and shall continue so, if you will only be good enough to go away, and leave us as we are." ...
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Kur të vdes, të më përcjellin zogjtë si ndër balada, pikëllim qiejsh, shi bilbilash!...
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Memory

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From hidden springs it rises, and to subterranean grottoes it flows, so that the Demon of the Valley knows not why its waters are red......
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Tradhtohet njeriu S'e kam fjalën që dhe varri i tij vdes dhe emri Shndërrohet në barë të kalbur harrese. ...
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An Item Of Fashionable Intelligence

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The countess must have been a poor diplomatist, or she might have thought of this; or she may have remembered her own appearance on the rare occasions......
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Ivan Bunin (1870-1953)

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Ivan Bunin was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1933....
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A Nightmare

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Such a thing does not happen in any country! As her pastor and spiritual father, I ought not to allow it, but what can I do? What? Why?...
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Trëndafili i tharë

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U venitën lulet nëpër bar, Dhe bari vetë u fut në zverdhëllime. Ti e mbetur qyqe, unë qyqar, Ti rrënkim i lehtë, unë psherëtimë....
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Trëndafili çeli në kopësht, m'u si një psherëtimë. Zëra të largët vijnë e vdesin te kjo erë....
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In Just

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Since feeling is first / who pays any attention / to the syntax of things / will never wholly kiss you". ...
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Bilbili dhe trëndafili

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Këndon mbi trëndafil sa mund bilbil’ i ngratë, Po trëndafili hesht e sytë nuk ia shtie Veç tundet e dremit mes tingush dashurie. ...
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The Metamorphosis

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He stayed there all night, spending the time partly in a light slumber, from which his hunger kept waking him up with a start, and partly in worrying and sketching vague hopes......
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Pashë ëndërr Fidel Kastron. Ai ishte strehuar në një shtëpi të bardhë. Kurse unë, unë gjuaja me top mbi shtëpi. Fideli ishte në mbathje të gjata dhe kanotiere....
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The Answer

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Whereat the withered flower, all content, Died as they die whose days are innocent......
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Në stacionin e largët

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Eja, trishtim, eja me hapa fletësh që bien nga degët, eja me hapa shiu që këputet nga fletët... Eja, trishtim......
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In Trouble

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"Lord have mercy upon us!" cried Avdeyev in amazement. "I am not the only one in debt to the bank! The whole town owes it money. I pay the interest and I shall repay the debt....
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The Fox And The Leopard

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"You may have a very smart coat," he said, "but you would be a great deal better off if you had a little more smartness inside your head and less on your ribs, the way I am. That's what I call real beauty."...
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Mysticis umbraculis

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"Forgetful let me lie where Summer's drouth Sifts fine the sand and then with gaping mouth Dream planet-struck by the grape's round wine-red star. Nymphs, I shall see the shade that now you are." ...
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An Item of Fashionable Intelligence

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"Well, she happens to care for somebody else," answered his lordship, "she told me so herself." ...
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Dielli përplaset pas dritaresh siç pas një pasqyre të lëmuar. E kështu që nuk hyjmë dot, as për arin e botës. ...
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Lying In Grass

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That beautifully and courageously rests in the blue, Is this too only a convulsion... ...
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Bënte një kohë e mrekullueshme, nga ato që ju ledhatojnë zemrën......
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Elisabetës

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Të mbledhur së bashku, komisionerët iu paraqitën Dinoshës me lutjen që t’ua besonte magjinë jetëdhënëse....
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Qerpikë ujëvarash

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Zvogëluar si dallëndyshe e artë për folezat e shpirtit të tyre, depërtova lehtësisht në mjediset e thjeshta ngrohur me mirënjohje. ...
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Sleep

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The moment I tried to focus on it, the shadow began to assume a definite shape, as if it had been waiting for me to notice it. ...
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In the Dark

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Even the watchman, paid to disturb the stillness of night, was silent; even the corncrake -- the only wild creature of the feathered tribe that does not shun the proximity of summer visitors -- was silent. ...
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John Galsworthy (1867-1933)

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English novelist and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932....
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The Invitation

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Freedom was there, and joy in every eye: Such scenes were England's boast in days gone by. ...
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Kam një ëndërr

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Në çaste lumturie, për shembull duke vështruar një peizazh të bukur, e di përnjëherë se nuk bëj pjesë aty, bota më shfaqet si diçka e çuditshme, nuk njoh asnjë cep ku të mund të ndihem në shtëpinë time....
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Medalioni

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Medailonin e kisha harruar fare. Aty tek viti i dytë i kurbetllëkut fillim maji më kujtohet që ish, duke kositur bar me kosë në një lulishten e fshatit ......
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Nga ëndrrat e gjyshes

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“Mos m’i prekni fluturat... Lërini të fluturojnë... Mos ua prekni flatrat... I kanë të lagura nga lotët e mi... Ato ma ledhatojnë gjumin kur i mbyll sytë... ...
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Cool Air

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The lassitude of his earlier ill days gave place to a return of his fiery purpose, so that he seemed about to hurl defiance at the death-daemon even as that ancient enemy seized him....
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The Unnamable

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Moreover, so far as esthetic theory was involved, if the psychic emanations of human creatures be grotesque distortions, what coherent representation could express or portray so gibbous and infamous ......
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Rrezet e farfurishme të Diellit pranveruer puthshin amblas faqet e gjelbërta të gjetheve dhe fletët e shumëngjyrta të luleve, ama e të cilave kundërmonte e kandshme, ndihej fort dhe dehëse....
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Çipi i palaçove

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Ç’është “Avropa” ose “Evropi”? Pas besimit të shqiptarëve, është një vend i çuditshëm, larg nga Shqipëria. ...
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Persuasion

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A few years before, Anne Elliot had been a very pretty girl, but her bloom had vanished early; and as even in its height, her father had found little to admire in her......
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Silhouettes

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Black rivers flow between black banks; black, stunted trees grow in black fields; black withered flowers by black wayside. Black roads lead from blackness past blackness to blackness......
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Nerves

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Ghosts are, we all know, a superstition, the offspring of undeveloped intelligence, but Vaxin, nevertheless, pulled the bed-clothes over his head, and shut his eyes very tight. ...
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Impression De Voyage

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The sea was sapphire coloured, and the sky Burned like a heated opal through the air......
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Two Remarkable Dreams

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Stumpy's eyes were huge and blue. The opening of them was like the revealing of unfathomable sky through clouds of roseate hue! ...
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Në thellësitë joshëse

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Atje larg, një barkë e vogël e cila ka ngarkuar diellin me vete dhe zvarrit rrezet e tij duke i derdhur mbi valët e kaltra si toptha kristali. ...
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Exotic Perfume

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Of Sappho, poet and lover — the virile, calm, and brave, More beautiful than Venus, by force of earthly grief — More beautiful than blue-eyed Venus, with her grave... ...
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Sun and Flesh

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Covered with the snow of rose petals, will caress Women and flowers beneath their lovely outstretched feet!...
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The Examining Magistrate

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The examining magistrate gave a forced smile, and, to conceal his too noticeable agitation, began lighting a cigarette. ...
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Një heshtje e bukur

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Dhe shkoi e hyri në Manastirin e Unit të shpëtonte shpirtin nga gjuhëligat e Lehjes ...Pastaj e përcollën te banesa e fundit me shpenzimet gratis nga Bashkia e Lezhës. ...
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Blueberries

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"You speak as if this were a travelled road. You forget where we are. What is beyond That he'd be going to or coming from At such an hour of night, and on foot too....
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The Romantic Sunset

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Let us run toward the horizon, it is late, let us run fast, So we can at least catch an oblique ray! ...
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Sikur

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Të gjorat pemë ! Të qethura ! Pa zogj. Të ngrira. Drithërohen nga malli për krehërin e erës. ...
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Panairi i Librit “Prishtina 2010”!

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Panairi i Librit në Kosovë, do të zhvillohet në Prishtinë nga 7 -13 Qershor, 2010. ...
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I Sit By The Window

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I sit by the window. Outside, an aspen. When I loved, I loved deeply. It wasn't often. ...
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A Misfurtune

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"You low creature!" she said, upbraiding herself. "You low creature!" ...
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Parisian Dream

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The sun sinks moribund beneath an arch, And like a long shroud rustling from the East, Hark, Love, the gentle Night is on the march. ...
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The Crocodile

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"A capital idea!" he said, with the utmost satisfaction. "We'll have a look at the crocodile!...
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Dëgjohet Akoma Deti

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Nuk druan, as shpreson, as pret, por vrojton ballazi diellin qe perendon. ...
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A Story Without An End

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That sweat, the expression of his face, the trembling of the hands he leaned upon, his hard breathing and his clenched teeth, showed that he was suffering beyond endurance....
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An Incident

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They are surprised, impressed, and do not hear nurse grumbling as she pursues them. The most genuine delight shines in the eyes of both....
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The Mass of Shadows

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Having concluded his narrative after this fashion, the sacristan drank a long draught of wine, remained pensive for a moment, and then resumed his talk in these words: ...
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Ajo më zotëronte me tërë qenien e saj, përmes lëvizjeve, qëndrimeve të saj, madje dhe përmes gjërave që ajo mbarte, gjëra të cilat ktheheshin në magjepsëse. ...
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Triumph

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Presently, "Story for a romancer, not a physician." He seemed to be canvassing an inadequacy in himself with dissatisfaction....
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Ode to a Nightingale

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In the long vista of the years to roll, Let me not see our country's honour fade: O let me see our land retain her soul, Her pride, her freedom; and not freedom's shade. ...
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The Tree and the Reed

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"O Hercules, help me in this my hour of distress," quoth he. But Hercules appeared to him, and said: "Tut, man, don't sprawl there. Get up and put your shoulder to the wheel." ...
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Varfëria dhe Liria

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Ujëtë të ftohtë, era pun' e madhe, bilbili ia thotë, gratë si sorrkadhe....
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Dreams

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The authorities are bound by law to give me my share . . . ye-es! They say the land costs nothing, no more than snow; you can take what you like! ...
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A Nervous Breakdown

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The cases in London, in Hamburg, in Warsaw, weighed upon him by their mass as a mountain weighs upon the earth; he felt dispirited, bewildered, in the face of this mass......
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U zgjua Vera

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Unë shkoj matanë kur të dua vetë Vdes. Dhe, ringjallem si Feniksi. ...
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Strong Impressions

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" 'Excellent! Capital!' he applauded me as my letter to Natasha disappeared into the darkness of the box. 'I congratulate you with all my heart. I am glad for you.' ...
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A Story Without an End

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"The influence of light. . . . We admit it! But you know men do shoot themselves by candle-light! ...
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Presentiment

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The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed;-- The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed....
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Bread and Wine

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A place to rest isn't given to us. Suffering humans decline and blindly fall from one hour to the next, like water thrown from cliff to cliff, year after year, down into the Unknown....
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The Street Of The Blank Wall

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It was unmistakable, the look of relief that came into the old, dim eyes. Evidently the incident of the previous evening had suggested to him an enemy....
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Les Miserables

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Brilliant of face, delicate of profile, with eyes of a deep blue, heavy lids, feet arched and small, wrists and ankles admirably formed, a white skin which, here and there allowed the azure ......
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The Brothers-In-Arms

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Now at this time two young gentlemen of Touraine, of whom one was the Cadet of Maille, and the other Sieur de Lavalliere, became brothers- in-arms on the day they gained their spurs. ...
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Silentium Amoris

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The seven-fold vision of the Florentine, And grave-browed Milton's solemn harmonies....
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- Në vapor po udhëton me ju një fenomen i natyrës - Centoviçi....
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The Clown Chastised

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A heavy sleep without those dreams that creep Under curtains alien to remorse, I ask of your bed, Sleep you can savour after your dark deceits, You who know more of Nothingness than the dead. ...
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Kanga e qytetit të huej

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Por a do të vijë dita kangët me u zgjue? Apo ndoshta shekujt me ne prap po tallen? Jo! Jo! Se liria filloi me lulzue dhe e ndjej nga Dielli valën....
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Mist and Rain

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Could you have believed, surprised hypocrites, That one makes fun of the master, that one cheats him, That it's reasonable to receive two rewards, To be rich and go to Heaven?...
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To Hope

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In the long vista of the years to roll, Let me not see our country's honour fade: O let me see our land retain her soul, Her pride, her freedom; and not freedom's shade. ...
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Nga një lot ndryshoi bota

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Eshtë hapi që sa niset, loti i parë mes blerimit. Eshtë dhimbja që po ngjizet në themel të njerëzimit. Ja! Atje fillon kamzhiku fishkëllimash të përdridhet; Kryq i rëndë përmbi supe, shpirti kuq…në zift…që hidhet. ...
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Silhouettes

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I suppose it was my childhood's surroundings that instilled in me this affection for sombre hues. One of my earliest recollections is of a dreary marshland by the sea. ...
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A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever

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In a green island, far from all men's knowing? More healthful than the leafiness of dales? More secret than a nest of nightingales? ...
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S. Beckett me “Molloy” në kërkim të vetes

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Ka dalë në qarkullim nga shtëpia botuese “Tirana Times” romani “Molloy” i shkrimtarit irlandez, Samuel Beckett. Me përkthim të Urim Nergutit, ky është romani i kërkimit të vetes, romani i identitetit....
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The Legion of Honor

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When he met any men who were decorated on the boulevards, he looked at them askance, with intense jealousy....
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The Piece of String

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All the aristocracy of the plough were eating there at Mait' Jourdain's, the innkeeper's, a dealer in horses also and a sharp fellow who had made a great deal of money in his day....
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An Adventure

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"I am laughing because I haven't murdered anyone, and I have not taken any sin on my soul, but I have found the money." ...
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A Tragic Actor

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"Bring out the motive, the motive!" Limonadov kept saying as he dictated to the comic man. "Lay on the respect. . . . These official chaps like it....
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Bota e një gjuhe

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Ngadhnjim, ngadhnjim i frymës së ashtit, ngadhnjim! Por përmes asaj drite shihej se përmbrenda rrashtës, mbrendë në anin e grues, kalbej fara e kuptimit të fjalëve në gjumë para se me u zgjue. ...
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In The Dark

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And in one instant her imagination had drawn the picture so dreaded by lady visitors in country places -- a burglar creeps into the kitchen, from the kitchen into the dining-room . . . the silver in the cupboard......
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The Albatross

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A gleam... then night! O fleeting beauty, Your glance has given me sudden rebirth, Shall I see you again only in eternity?...
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Dil nga heshtja !

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Në heshtjen tënde ndiej të ngjizur mençurinë e si vargje siluetash shoh hijet e shkronjave në ikje e sipër......
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Erik Karlfeldt (1864-1931)

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Karlfeldt won the Nobel Prize for Literature posthumously in 1931 – he had refused the honor in 1918 on the grounds of his position as a secretary of the Nobel Committee......
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The Street Of The Blank Wall

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The remarkable feature was the eyes. It might have been, of course, that they alone caught the light and held it, rendering them uncannily large and brilliant....
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Manushaqes

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Pa shiko lulet' e tjera, Q'u çel' e u lulëzuan, Shih, pa shih ç'u zbukuruan, I ngjalli përsëri vera. ...
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In The Ravine

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The sun went to bed wrapped in cloth of gold and purple, and long clouds, red and lilac, stretched across the sky, guarded its slumbers. ...
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Carlos Fuentes

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Mexican novelist, journalist, playwright, and essayist, who made his international breakthrough with The Death of Artemio Cruz in 1962....
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Bad Weather

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In the morning the rain was not pattering on the panes, but the sky was still grey. The trees stood looking mournful, and at every gust of wind they scattered drops....
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Ardhmëria

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Rri në dhomën time dhe nuk flas (heshtja hyn si shërbyese për të vënê pak rregull), dhe pres që një nga një gënjeshtrat të shmangen : ç'mbetet vallë ? ç'i mbetet këtij plaku që e pengon aq mirë për të vdekur ? Ç'forcë?...
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Rothschild's Fiddle

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When the coffin was finished Bronze put on his spectacles and wrote in his book: "Marfa Ivanov's coffin, two roubles, forty kopecks." ...
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Despair In Love

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Because, which this mute admiration, both remained until the middle of the night, wandering slowly down the flowery path of love, the good sculptor went away radiant with happiness. ...
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The Detective

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She puts on a yellow cloak and a green hat, and coming in at another door says she is a lady from the country, and does he want a housekeeper?...
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Saint-Malo

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The sky was pink, the sea was calm, and there was a lull in the breeze. Not a ripple broke the motionless surface of ocean on which the setting sun shed its golden light....
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Mëmëdheu

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Strëgjyshët ku kanë qënë, dhe varret q’i kanë vënë, ku jam rritur me thërime, ku kam folur gjunë time......
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The Beautiful Night

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Of this beauteous summer night, Here is felt the charm that pleases......
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Lulet e Verdha të Pikëllimit

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Çelje si lule shpërthyeshëm n’shpengim drithëruese fërgëlluese sa mezi mbaj frymën m’sillje paqë përndezur pasionesh përvlim... ...
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Ekstaza Pranverore

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...dhe dallndysha erdhi... si shpirti n'ekstazë, në hovin e shejt shtri; me qiellën rroket, me diellin puthet, dridhen krahët në hare mandej poshtë vërsulet t'u dhurue në cicrim përshndetje një mijë. ...triumfon bylbyli... ...
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Deserters

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One of the commonest sights in Washington is a squad of deserters. ...
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Kjo Pranverë!

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As aromat e luleve nuk i ndiej më… As aromën e grurit dhe të bukës. As aromat e jetës. Ndiej vetëm aromat e dheut e të shirave…” ...
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The Moon, White...

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From heaven’s calm Empurpled by a star…...
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A Man of Habit

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"It's extraordinary," concluded my friend, lighting a fresh cigar, "what creatures of habit we are." ...
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Fill i Gjetun

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Në nadje vrejta rrethin e andrrave në truell e gjeta fillin e tretun në pikën e ndaljes së dritës. ...
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Expensive Lessons

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During the subsequent lessons he feasted his eyes on his elegant teacher, and without struggling with himself, gave full rein to his imaginations, pure and impure....
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Novela e Shahut (Fragment)

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- Mbase do të kem mundësi të formoj në qelinë time një lloj fushe shahu dhe do të përpiqem t'i përtërij këto lojëra. Çarçafi m'u duk me katrorthe dhe sikur ishte një dhuratë qiellore. ...
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Ai e ka ndjerë atë gjënë që ia lidhte këmbët ndërsa koka trullosej, dhe që zemra ia çante brinjët duke rrahur me forcë. Jo, ai nuk mund të pajtohej me idenë që ata do ta vrisnin. ...
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Domestic Peace

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In the mysterious light which prevailed he looked at the Countess, and detected on her gently agitated face an expression of uneasiness, modesty, and eagerness which enchanted him. ...
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An Easter Angel

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Whenever he looked towards the heavens, he saw them in their rainbowed magnificence singing in massed choirs to the glory of God. ...
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Por edhe pas njëzet vjet qëndrimi në Afrikë, ai mbetej një cockney i kulluar ; duke u ngulitur, ai nuk kishte pasur në kokë veçse një ide , të fitonte para, dhe ai fitoi, madje shumë....
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Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)

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Sinclair Lewis won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930, the first given to American. ...
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A Day in the Country

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The sun appears from behind the clouds and floods the wood, the fields, and the three friends with its warm light. ...
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Prag

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Eci anës detit e përshëndes anijet në mesditën e ndricuar si Kishë....
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A Story Without an End

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"Morning is still far off. And in the morning there's the funeral. A lovely prospect! One follows the coffin through the mud and rain. One walks along, seeing nothing but the cloudy sky and the wretched scenery....
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Dinakja

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"Siç zjarri, dashuria e vendos dritën e saj vetëm mbi fajin dhe bukurinë e drurëve në hi..."...
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Drita është si Uji

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Ditën e çmimeve, dy vëllezërit qenë përshëndetur si një shembull për shkollën dhe ua kishin dhënë diplomat. Kësaj here, ata nuk kërkuan asgjë sepse prindërit e tyre nuk i kishin pyetur çfarë dëshironin. ...
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My Books...

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And towards the errant sky of your angelic eye Climbs: as in a melancholy garden the true sigh Of a white jet of water towards the Azure! ...
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The Bird Market

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"There is no relying on that bird," a fancier will say, looking into a siskin's beak, and counting the feathers on its tail. "He sings now, it's true, but what of that? I sing in company too. ...
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…Mysticis umbraculis

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The one rose with its perfect Summer gone Into times past, yet then on into the future. ...
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The Faun

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O nymphs, let’s rise again with many memories. ‘My eye, piercing the reeds, speared each immortal Neck that drowns its burning in the water With a cry of rage towards the forest sky;...
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The First Snowfall

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About the beginning of January, a great misfortune befell her. Her father and mother died in a carriage accident. She came to Paris for the funeral. ...
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The Lease Of The "Cross Keys"

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Opening the bag, the landlord saw a neat little roll of manuscript, and across a corner of the manuscript was written the Bishop's name and address. ...
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The Raven

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But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour. ...
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Lamtumire!

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Ajo më zotëronte nga larg ashtu siç më kishte zotëruar nga afër. Kaluan disa vite. Nuk e harroja aspak. ...
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The Mass of Shadows

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"'Monseigneur, you who were my friend, and to whom in days gone by I gave all that a girl holds most dear, may God keep you in His grace!...
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The Fair Imperia

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The archbishop, knitting the circumflex accent that he had above his nose, said not a word. Then the very humble priest trembled in his skin to have confessed so much to his superior....
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In the Spring

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"I seemed to myself to expand in the sun. I loved everything--the steamer, the river, the trees, the houses and my fellow-passengers. I felt inclined to kiss something, no matter what; it was love, laying its snare....
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Çadra

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Znj. Oreille ia tregoi të gjitha. Sa për blerjen e një çadre të re, kjo kishte marrë fund, i shoqi nuk do ta kishte më....
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Marguerite

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How is it I am here dreaming still, as I have been ever since I rediscovered my ego on the Pont de la Concorde that evening of the lovely sunset? Transform, did I say?...
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A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever

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A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never. ...
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The Mass of Shadows

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It was a silent Mass, during which neither the sound of the moving lips nor the tinkle of the bell was audible. ...
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Silentium Amoris

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And there is nothing left to do But to kiss once again, and part, Nay, there is nothing we should rue, I have my beauty,--you your Art......
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The Metamorphosis

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Yet this capital was by no means sufficient to let the family live on the interest of it; for one year, perhaps, or at the most two, they could live on the principal, that was all....
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Dust of Snow

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"How often already you've had to be told, Keep cold, young orchard. Good-bye and keep cold. Dread fifty above more than fifty below." ...
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The Atheist's Mass

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Genius always presupposes moral insight. This insight may be applied to a special subject; but he who can see a flower must be able to see the sun....
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Silence

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When Nature sleeps and stars are mute, To mar the silence ev'n with lute. At rest on ocean's brilliant dyes An image of Elysium lies: ...
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The Street Of The Blank Wall

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I was due at a bachelor gathering that evening, and after dinner, the affair being fresh in my mind, I talked about it. I am not sure, but I think it was in connection with a discussion on Maeterlinck....
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Dreamland

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I have been happy, tho' in a dream. I have been happy- and I love the theme: Dreams! in their vivid coloring of life......
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"Their Lawful Occasions"

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"Tell him what we're driving at. Get it into his head somehow," said Moorshed; and Pyecroft, snatching the cup from me, enfolded the old man with an arm and a mist of wonderful words....
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Fascination

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She is one of the most charming women, or, rather, girls, and the most admired in Paris. She leads a delightful existence and lives like a princess, that is all." ...
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Strong Impressions

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"Without my noticing it, he quickly passed from his enthusiastic tone to one of fatherly admonition, and then to a light and derisive one. . . ...
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The Apparition

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"Having fallen madly in love with a young girl, he had married her, but after a year of more than earthly happiness she died suddenly of an affection of the heart....
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Karfica

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Z. Prudhomme shpallte : "Kjo shpatë është dita më e bukur e jetës sime", e unë mund të them : "Kjo karficë është e tërë jeta ime". ...
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In a strange Land

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"What motive have I for joking? Why should I? Only mind now; it's a compact, don't you begin whining then and writing letters."...
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Nerves

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"There is a great deal in nature that is mysterious and . . . terrible . . ." thought Vaxin, as he got into bed. "It's not the dead but the unknown that's so horrible." ...
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A Daughter of Albion

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"It's the first time in my life I've heard her voice. There's no denying, it is a voice! She does not understand! Well, what am I to do with her?"...
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The Colonel's Ideas

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'Vive la France!' And I felt really affected. I do not know why, except that I thought it a pretty and gallant thing to say. ...
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Molloy

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Madje nganjëherë më duket se e kam njohur djalin tim, se jam kujdesur për të. Pastaj them me vete se është e pamundur. ...
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The Atheist's Mass

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Genius always presupposes moral insight. This insight may be applied to a special subject; but he who can see a flower must be able to see the sun. ...
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The Seven Wives Of Bluebeard

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Bluebeard was uniformly unfortunate in these various games, at which he lost large sums every night....
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The Cotter's Saturday Night

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Devotion's ev'ry grace, except the heart! The Power, incens'd, the pageant will desert,...
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A Living Chattel

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"Yes. . . . To my estate. . . . Then to the Crimea. . . . We will tell him by letter. . . . We can go at night. There is a train at half past one. Well? Is that all right?"...
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The Street Of The Blank Wall

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"It was the eyes," I said, "that struck me as so remarkable."...
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On the River

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O waves, what mournful tragedies ye know-- Deep waves, the dread of kneeling mothers' hearts!...
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The Blue Everywhere

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They do not question the one-legged, or men badly disabled or maim’d, but all others are stopt....
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The Dance of Death

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"Many words for few things!" "Death ends all; judgment comes to all." ...
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The Brilliant And The Common-Place

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Another change came. I saw a woman reading from the same book from which the gifted one had read. ...
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The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

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I suddenly, quite without noticing how, found myself on this other earth, in the bright light of a sunny day, fair as paradise....
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Fascination

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"Yes, this country is beautiful. But no country satisfies one when they are far from the one they love." ...
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An Enigmatic Nature

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"It's not you I am kissing, but the suffering of humanity. Do you remember Raskolnikov and his kiss?" ...
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To a Mountain Daisy

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Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade! ...
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Three Hermits

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'The fisherman was telling us about the hermits,' replied one, a tradesman, rather bolder than the rest. ...
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The Trip of the Horla

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Suddenly the lights of a town, which seems to be of considerable size, appear before us. Perhaps it is Lille. ...
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The Kiss

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After tea the officers went into the drawing-room. Lieutenant Lobytko's instinct had not deceived him. ...
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The Effeminates

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Just now they are the dearest friends in the world, furious with each other half the year, abusing and loving each other by ......
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The Atheist's Mass

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"Well, I was living in that house, I was working hard to pass my first examination, and I had no money at all. ...
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A Country Excursion

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"Listen!" he said; "the nightingales are singing during the day, so the female birds must be sitting."...
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A Laconic Answer

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Some of the people in the southern part of the country were called Spartans......
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Whispers of Immortality

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Daffodil bulbs instead of balls Stared from the sockets of the eyes!...
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The Street Of The Blank Wall

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I was due at a bachelor gathering that evening, and after dinner, the affair being fresh in my mind, I talked about it. ...
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The Flying Stars

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"You ought to have a statue," cried the Canadian, as he came back, radiant, from the telephone. ...
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Besnikeria dhe Liria e Perkthimit

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Udhëtimi ynë, ashtu si dhe ai i librave, janë të panjohur nga askush. ...
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The Heart Of The Spring

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'I will be as young then as you are, but now I am still old and tired, and you must help me to my chair and to my books.'...
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Evening Star

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And I turned away to thee, Proud Evening Star... ...
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Spirits of the Dead

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How it hangs upon the trees, A mystery of mysteries! ...
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The Philosopher's Joke

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She turned her face towards him. It was the most spiritually beautiful face he had ever seen. ...
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The White House by Moonlight

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Then the camps of the wounded—O heavens, what scene is this?—is this indeed humanity—these butchers’ shambles?...
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Three Portraits

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I felt melancholy... but it was with a genuine sense of comfort that I walked into the dining-room....
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The Hill of Illusion

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Never ask a man his opinion of a woman's dress when he is desperately and abjectly in love with the wearer. ...
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Reveille

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Now we have found our homes again, Our bellies are full......
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The Twisting Of The Rope

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'The sun and the moon are the man and the girl, they are my life and your life, they are travelling and ever travelling through the skies ......
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Living Or Dead?

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Mad with the inspiration of this new idea, she rushed from the but like a gust of wind, and stood upon the burning ground....
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A Trifle from Life

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"That's strange and . . . ridiculous!" he muttered, shrugging his shoulders and smiling sarcastically. ...
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The Descendant

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He became a dreamer who found life tame and unsatisfying; a searcher for strange realms ......
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The Lake

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The happiest day -- the happiest hour Mine eyes shall see -- have ever seen, The brightest glance of pride and power, I feel- have been. ...
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After the Dance

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'Everything must be done according to rule,' he said with a smile....
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The Festival

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Then I saw the lurid shimmering of pale light, and heard the insidious lapping of sunless waters. ...
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Mystification

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Somewhat amazed at all this, I made my retreat to the Baron. ...
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Dreams

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But the thing is not easy, so facile, so delicate, so almost imperceptible, are these sensations. ...
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Dritë Hëne

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Sot, kjo është bërë, pa dashuri, pa arsye, pa asgjë ; thjesht ngaqë një natë, mbi Liqenin e Lucernës, kishte Hënë të plotë. ...
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Champagne

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"Well, may the New Year bring you happiness!" I said, filling two glasses. "Drink!"...
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A Passion in the Desert

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"How "well known"?' I said. 'If you would only explain me the mystery, I should be vastly obliged.' ...
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"Dashamirëset "

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Mund ta kisha nuhatur këtë. Kolegët e mi më mbajnë për një njeri të qetë, të shtruar, të thelluar. ...
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Tjetri

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Situata jonë ishte unike, dhe ç’është e vërteta, nuk ishim të përgatitur për këtë....
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De Banana

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Now nature has settled that the right way to propagate plants is by means of seedlings....
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The Love of Ulrich Nebendahl

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"If only I could marry the whole village!" laughed Ulrich to himself....
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The Cost of Kindness

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"I could forgive him doing what he does if he didn't seem to enjoy it," said the senior churchwarden....
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The City Of The Sea

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"It is the voice of God speaking through the waters. He hath made answer." ...
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A Charming Woman

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She greeted me with a smile, in the light of which I at once forgot my past discomfort, and let her fingers rest, with delicious pressure, for a moment upon mine. ...
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A Mysterious Case

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I gasped--I could not help it--but I did not stir. For now I knew I was asleep and dreaming....
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Justice

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And every secret woe The shuddering waters saw Willed and fulfilled by high and low Let them relearn the Law....
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Dahlia e Bardhe

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"Ndoshta, vazhdoi ai, duke pritur shalqinin, ajo ka këputur petalet e dahlias." ...
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The Absent-Minded Man

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During the soup and the fish you recount anecdotes of his unpunctuality....
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Ajo

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Me një pikë lot, më rijep jetë Me dy pika, më lëndon, Pikë e tretë me vdes, më tret Më fik, si llambë e natës vonë....
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Jo vetem gjethet

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Çfare i mungonte gjumit tim mbreme Ç'lagej prej meje nga shiu?...
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Every word knows something of a vicious circle

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One morning I came to work and found my thick dictionaries lying on the floor of the hall outside my office. I opened the door; an engineer was sitting at my desk....
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Trajtat e Mbinjeriut

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Hidhet e përhidhet në shtregullën e fatit djalosh' i Arbënis. Hidhet e përhidhet në pëmdim mbrapa malit....
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Dimër jam në këtë qytet

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Unë jam një shpirt pa shtëpi. Atdhe Azil politik kërkoj tek një Mike… ...
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The Kindly Ones

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The dazzling success of his novel The Kindly Ones, which culminated with the Prix Goncourt on November 6, has transformed this unknown person into a public figure....
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Pogradeci

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Dyke nisur udhëtimin mes-për-mes nër Shqipëri, Drini plak e i përrallshëm po mburon prej ShëndNaumi... ...
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Hullia

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Mbështet biçikletën përkundër plepit. Dëgjohen hapat e tij. Ca turtuj të egër fluturojnë nga qershitë. Ato janë gri si drita. ...
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Revolucioni i Pavdekshem

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...Që bilbilat i këndojnë të vdekurit fol për tharjen e lumit Idapse dhe për Lekën që pushtoi Aleksandrinë trego për Revolucionin ......
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Ivan Bunin (1870-1953)

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Ivan Bunin was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1933. ...
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Sa të dua o Shqipëri!

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Se për mua, o Atdhè, je një lule aq e vyer! ...
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Bretkosa e Kuqe

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Largohet nga bregu. Vështron mullarin e kashtës. Mullari ngrihet i palëvizshëm, buzë ujit....
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Excerpts from The Passport

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Windisch crosses himself. The door latch is wet. It sticks to Windisch's hand. The church door is locked....
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Sikur guret te flisnin

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Papritur, nje drite verbuese leshohet nga lartesite qiellore duke stonuar me atmosferen rrethuese. ...
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Mike e vjetër

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0 Hene e shiut, e verbera madheshtore! Beje nje Iliade per mua Kur te rrezohet edhe Troja e fundit......
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Shtetrrethim

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What else could we do, for the doors were guarded, What else could we do, for they had imprisoned us......
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Vision

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He examined my eyes very carefully, and looked grave. He said that further neglect would be dangerous....
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Darkness at Noon

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"One of the few books written in this epoch which will survive it" New Statesman ...
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“Ikje nga trilli i perëndive”

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Me krahët e lidhur në hekurat e dritares, ai duhej të qëndronte në këmbë, me majat e gishtërinjve që sa e çiknin dyshemenë....
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Beatrix

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"Your love for Beatrix will make her suffer and make her happy too." ...
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Paradiso

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The greatest of the ministers of nature, Who with the power of heaven the world imprints And measures with his light the time for us... ...
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Darkness

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"You simpleton," sighed the doctor, "once the jury have found him guilty, not the governor, not even the minister, could do anything......
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Ti do te heshtesh!

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Do të heshtësh. Do të çohesh. Do të ikësh që andej, krahthyer drejt gojës së argatërisë do t'ikësh duke t'u zvogluar trupi, shpatullat në largësi....
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Zgjimi

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O vullnete të ndrydhura! O vullnete të shtypuna! Shkundni prangat të mbrapshta! E me britmë ngadhnyese, me hove viganash, dëshirash flatruese... ...
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About Love

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Love is usually poeticized, decorated with roses, nightingales; we Russians decorate our loves with these momentous questions, and select the most uninteresting of them, too....
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A Sea Voyage

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And the captain, a taciturn man with a surly, sunburned face, smoked a short pipe and spat angrily into the sea, congealed in impassivity....
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Cosmopolis

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Eric got back in the limo. The yen had to chart. He was the most powerful man in New York....
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John Galsworthy (1867-1933)

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English novelist and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932....
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Autumn!

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When descends the Autumn's power the sky will show it as the spirit's shower......
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The Brooklyn Follies

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Auster's native Brooklyn is painted with an affection which manages not to be sentimental, and the characters, despite their quirks and weaknesses, are likeable because they are human and because they can change for the better....
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Clair De Lune

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And this desire to "hug" flies or lilac blossoms disquieted, angered, and roused the priest, who saw, even in this, the ineradicable tenderness that is always budding in women's hearts....
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The Sphinx

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And above this sand, above this sea of dead dust, the huge head of the Egyptian Sphinx rears itself aloft....
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Alicante

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In winter's light In Montsouris Park In Paris On earth This earth That is a star....
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Nga vjen e keqja

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- Jo, e keqja nuk vjen as nga uria, as nga dashuria, por nga ligësia....
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Baronesha

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Znj. Samoris kërkoi, duke ulur sytë, pesëdhjetë mijë franga....
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Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)

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Lewis won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930....
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An Enigma

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But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we ... ...
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Vjeshtë në shpirt !

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Se ne jemi veç gjethe që në Pranverë blerojmë, Dhe zverdhemi ngadalë, gjersa Vjeshta na rrëzon... ...
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Parisian Sketch

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I, walked, of divine Plato dreaming And of Phidias, Salamis, Marathon, under twinkling Eyes, eyes of blue jets of gas. ...
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Nobel Prize in Literature, 2009

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Herta Muller, a Romanian-born German novelist, poet and essayist has won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature....
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The Favours of the Moon

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"You shall suffer for ever the influence of my kiss. You shall be beautiful in my fashion...!...
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"Thuaju te mos me vrasin"

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« Mirë, po shkoj. Por nëse për dreq do të më pushkatojnë dhe mua bashkë me ty, e kush do të kujdeset për gruan dhe fëmijët e mi ?...
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Thomas Mann (1875-1955)

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German essayist, cultural critic, and novelist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929....
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A Dream

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Mountains toppling evermore, Into seas without a shore......
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The Baroness

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For three months I sent her my best clients, from a business point of view. But I heard nothing more from her....
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Exotic Perfume

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More drowsy dreams the Moon tonight. She rests like a proud beauty on heaped cushions pressing......
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Dhuratat e panevojshme

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Ajo ikën, duke shtrënguar thesarin e saj – dhe tetëdhjetë e shtatë qindarkat që i mbeten......
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Sigrid Undset (1882-1949)

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Norwegian writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928....
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From Beckett to Brooklyn

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I’m scared of my own apartment. I’m scared twenty-four hours a day, but not necessarily in New York. I actually feel pretty comfortable in New York....
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Iluzion Optik

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Perëndi ! Nuk kam më ajër. Duket se po vdes… Po ç’ka tjetër ende ? Përse këndoj ?...
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Novela e Shahut

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Gjithë jetën time më kanë ngjallur interes monomanët të cilët i sundon ideja e një pasioni të vetëm se, sa më të kufizuar të jenë njerëzit aq më tepër i afrohen infinitit....
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Henri Bergson (1859-1941)

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French philosopher, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927....
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On Equilibrium

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Don't be alarmed, Yekaterina Petrovna, and don't get worried. Only there's no equilibrium in the world....
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The Carpenter Kushakov

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-- Huh! -- said the carpenter, went off to the chemist's, bought a plaster and stuck the plaster over his nose....
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Farewell

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A great golden ship, above me, flutters many-colored pennants in the morning breeze....
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Green

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And in the silence of a Summer night Sultry and splendid, by a late moon’s light....
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The Innocents

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Evening fell, ambiguous Autumn evening; The beauties, dreamers who leaned on our arms......
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Pergjithmone...

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Trendafili celi ne kopsht mu si nje psheretime Zera te larget vijne e vdesin tek kjo ere....
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Yukio Mishima, një Nobel i munguar

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Ëndrra e tij është për një Japoni tradicionale, jashtë botës teknike e cila ka filluar të shtrijë kthetrat e saj gjithandej....
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Karfica

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Z. Prudhomme shpallte : "Kjo shpatë është dita më e bukur e jetës sime", e unë mund të them : "Kjo karficë është e tërë jeta ime"....
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"The Terror"

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It was all past and over. I had been feverish, had had the nightmare. I know not what. I had been ill, in fact, but yet thought I was a great fool....
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Eldorado

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"Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied- "If you seek for Eldorado!" ...
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Petalet bien...

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Petalet bien…heshtas shket pranvera, Roniten te perkoheshmet stoli…Nje grusht kujtimesh qe shperndau era,Ja c`qe , se fundi , gjithe kjo dashuri ! ...
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I Hear America Singing!

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The day what belongs to the day--at night the party of young fellows, robust, friendly......
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A Classical Student

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He talked for a long time, made a regular speech. He alluded to science, to light, and to darkness. ...
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Broken Dreams

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Your beauty can but leave among us Vague memories, nothing but memories. ...
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To Women

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The women belonging to the wealthy classes fulfilled their law, while the men did not comply with theirs......
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The Heart Of The Spring

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The roses he was gathering were like glowing rubies, and the lilies had the dull lustre of pearl....
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Butterflies

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Roses red and roses white Plucked I for my love's delight....
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A Widow

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After dinner, in the large drawing-room, everybody played lotto, without enjoyment, while the wind whistled madly around the house. ...
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Remembrance

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No later light has lightened up my heaven, No second morn has ever shone for me;...
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Within and Without (My Reminiscences)

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When solitude thus reigned over the water, my whole attention would be drawn to the shadows under the banyan tree...
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Lenore

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Sa shpejt që zhduket përreth tyre ajo çka hëna ndriçon ! Sa shpejt ikën gjithçka larg !...
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Who knows if the Moon's...

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Up with the pale important stars and the Humorous moon ...
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Nerves

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"What a thing it is to have nerves!" he reflected. "An educated, intelligent man! . . . Hang it all! . . . It's a perfect disgrace!"...
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The Moribund

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The moist, lumpy earthen floor looked greasy, and, at the back of the room, the bed made an indistinct white spot....
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Grazia Deledda (1871-1936)

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Italian novelist and short story writer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926....
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The Artist

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"And without any risk to me, eh? An accident, that is all; bad luck, one of those mistakes which happen every day in our business. ...
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The Umbrella

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Mme. Oreille submitted the case to him. As for buying a new umbrella, that was out of the question; her husband should not have another....
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Juan Rulfo - Nje Mit Letrar

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Sot, Juan Rulfo njihet si një ndër shkrimtarët më të mëdhenj latinoamerikanë, si i pari që ka hapur hullinë e romanit latinoamerikan të "realizmit magjik"....
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Qytetit tim

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Pranvera vjen vyshket zemërimi çelë behari i pjekurisë çil dhe ti, mos rri vetëm... ...
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George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

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In 1925 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature....
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To Clymène

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Because the rare perfume Of your swanlike paleness, Because the innocence Of your fragrance... ...
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Nymphs

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At the very edge of the sky, beyond the low line of the fields, a golden cross was blazing like a spark of fire on the white belfry of a Christian Church.......
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The Unknown

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But just as the sun was going down on one beautiful evening in May I recognized her walking along the Avenue des Champs-Elysees....
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Hije

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Rrezja e hënës përcillej ngadalë, ngrihej, rrumbullakohej nga lart… Një grua e bardhë, e palëvizshme dhe e tejdukshme si bryma, mbahej përpara meje....
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Moment !

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Te kroi ku flenë stinët, vallëzon mermeri i Legjendave....
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Mnemosyne

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Mnemosyne was Titan goddess of memory and remembrance and the inventress of language and words....
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W. Reymont (1867-1925)

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Reymont was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1924. ...
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Homecoming

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But the sound of string music ,resonates hour by hour, and perhaps that pleases, the approaching gods. ...
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Kopshti

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Atëherë në emër të kujt do të bien gjethet? Në emër të kujt do të vijnë shirat, mjegullat, ylberët?...
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The Will

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"Well, I say that my mother's will was one of the most beautiful, the most loyal..."...
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It Rains In My Heart…

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"It rains softly on the town." Arthur Rimbaud...
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Death And The Dying

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Defend yourself by rank and wealth, Plead beauty, virtue, youth, and health......
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In Passion Week

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"Go along, they are ringing already; and mind, don't be naughty in church or God will punish you."...
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To the Fates

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Where, ah, where shall I find, When winter comes, the flowers......
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Nevermore!

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In loving, mourning. And so must it be. Happiness once walked side by side with me. ...
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Duke thyer befas zinë ...

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Diell, ç’do ti nga ne ? Lëre lulen të bjerë......
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Ëndërruar për dimrin

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Dimrit, ne do të shkojmë në një vagon të vogël rozë. Me jastekë blu....
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William Yeats (1865-1939)

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William Yeats received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923....
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In time of Daffodils

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Does the blossom study her day of life?...
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Brussels

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Calm houses, old passions!...
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The Horoscope

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Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it....
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Bukuria qe vret

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Në vendin tonë kudo valojnë flamujt e një melankolie të trishtueshme......
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The Model

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"She was really attractive, gifted with that fashionable flippancy that little Parisians so readily affect"....
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Butterflies

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'Heaven is beautiful, Earth is ugly, 'The three-dimensioned preacher saith......
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The Elixir Of Life

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"My beauty has power to rekindle the frozen heart of age."...
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The Neckar

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I love the earth, which mourns with me......
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Dy botet

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Dy botë një mrekulli…Një jet' më vete tirret ditën dhe nata ngre një tjetër mbretëri....
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The Dance Of Death

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"Many words for few things!" "Death ends all; judgment comes to all." ...
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Kronike per zgjedhjet

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Tani jam bir i Hënës. Tërë ishujt e tjerë janë të rremë. Jo, nuk ka Itakë në këtë botë. ...
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Jacinto Benavente (1866-1954)

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One of the most important Spanish dramatists of the 20th century and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1922....
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My Sunday At Home

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"I shall stay here," I said. "It's a very pretty country."...
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A writer as the conscience of Africa

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Wole Soyinka, who will be 75 years on July 13, is the inheritor of the best of two worlds....
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At a Summer Villa

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A graceful fair girl with a little blue hat and a turn-up nose rose before his imagination....
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Moonlight

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"It was a night such as one reads of in fairy tales. The full moon showed itself in the middle of the sky..."...
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Of Beauty

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In beauty, that of favor, is more than that of color......
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Anatole France (1844-1924)

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Anatole France was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921....
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Atdhe i kujt je?

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Ndërsa nata rrëzohet dhe Qielli fillon Shpirtit t’i afrohet,ndër ëndrrat e mia të arratisura vjen Berati....
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Sensation

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“The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.”...
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Moment

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Por fati sundon tërë popujt e zotave të shumtë si rëra, vjollcë e vogël, o shpirt. ...
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At the Middle of Life

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Friedrich Hölderlin, one of the greatest German lyric poets, whose work bridges the Classical and Romantic ......
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Knut Hamsun (1859-1952)

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Norwegian novelist, dramatist, poet, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920....
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Shpirt, ku je?

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Si munde të largoheshe në kthim? Si munde të buzëqeshje në vajtim?...
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But the other

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Day I was passing a certain gate rain fell as it will....
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A Few Thoughts

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Ideas are like souls to which perfect expression gives immortality. ...
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Allegory

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Friendship alone is able to inspire and shape into its own image a discussion on Friendship....
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Dy fjale mbi Carver ne shqip

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Sapo ka dale nga shtypi ne Tirane, permbledhja e novelave "Çfarë dëshironi të shihni ? " te Raymond Carver. Librin mund te gjeni ne librarite kryesore te Tiranes....
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Carl Spitteler (1845-1924)

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Swiss poet, winner of the 1919 Nobel Prize for Literature for his masterpiece, "Olympian Spring "....
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The Soul of Wine

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"There can be no progress (real, that is, moral) except in the individual and by the individual himself"....
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C.G. Heidenstam (1859-1940)

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Swedish poet and prose writer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1916. ...
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If...

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Always it's Spring and everyone's in love and flowers pick themselves. ...
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All in green

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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink. ...
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Sikur...

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"How came it that this prudent, economical man was also generous? "...
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Romain Rolland (1866-1944)

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French novelist, dramatist, essayist, mystic, pacifist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915....
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Debora e Pare

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Nuk kam shumë kujtime me diellin. Truri im është i mbushur kryesisht me të ftohtë, acar, borë, shi, baltë, e gjithçka shkon bashkë me hallet e një shtëpie në mal....
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Correspondences

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"There can be no progress (real, that is, moral) except in the individual and by the individual himself "....
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Genie

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O delight in our health, impetus of our faculties, selfish affection and passion for him, him who loves us for his eternal life... ...
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Trishtim

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Të ngrira nga ajri i Parisit, Siç lulet nga dimri ! ...
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Vigils

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O fruitfulness of the mind and immensity of the universe!...
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John Banville

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E vërteta është qe ne e duam shumë gjuhën tonë, kemi prirje për t’u mrekulluar si fëmijë nga ajo, dhe ne duhet të qetësohemi vazhdimisht për të mos u rrëmbyer nga gjuha. ...
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Gerhart Hauptmann (1862-1946)

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Hauptmann won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1912....
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Carol Duffy becomes Britain’s first woman Poet Laureate

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She plans to donate £5,750 annual honorarium to Poetry Society....
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Paul Heyse (1830-1914)

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He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1910....
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Selma Lagerlof (1858-1940)

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Swedish novelist, who in 1909 became the first woman writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. ...
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Giosue Carducci (1835-1907)

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Italian poet, critic, scholar, and orator, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1906, highly influential literary figure in his time....
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Zoti Flaubert, jam Une!

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« Aq më bën për botën, për të ardhmen, për thashethemet, për një organizëm çfarëdo, madje dhe për famën letrare, që dikur më ka bërë të kaloj netë të tëra pa gjumë duke e ëndërruar. » ...
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Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916)

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Polish novelist, a storyteller, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1905....
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Frederic Mistral (1830-1914)

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French poet and Provençal patriot, who shared with the Spanish dramatist José Echegaray the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1904....
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Fashion

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A prolific writer, Proust also was an avid letter writer. ...
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B. Martinus Bjornson (1832-1910)

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He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1903...
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Sidelined

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Austrian novelist, poet and playwright, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004....
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Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903)

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German classical scholar and historian, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1903. ...
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The Book of Paul Auster

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Paul Auster has been writing beautiful, metaphysical, mysterious novels for a long time now. ...
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This is the garden; colours come and go

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In his work, Cummings experimented radically with form, punctuation, spelling and syntax, abandoning traditional techniques and structures to create a new, highly idiosyncratic means of poetic expression. ...
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The Impossible

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I tried to invent new flowers, new planets, new flesh, new languages. I thought I had acquired supernatural powers. Ha! I have to bury my imagination and my memories! ...
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Vilsoni dhe Genci

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“Nuk do ta harroj kurrë atë natë. Patëm marrë urdhër që të mos i qëllonim përnjëherë të dy të dënuarit me vdekje, por vetëm njërin. ...
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Rene Sully-Prudhomme (1839-1907)

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French poet, who won the first Nobel Prize for Literature in 1901. ...
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W.B. Yeats (1865-1939)

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"Now and in time to be, / Wherever the green is worn, / All changed, changed utterly: / A terrible beauty is born." ...
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Krijimi dhe Tradita (bisedë)

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Shkrimtari nuk mund të sjellë tjetër veçse punën e tij, që është po aq tërheqëse sa dhe ajo e një arkitekti apo e një mjeku. ...
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Tagore (1861 - 1941)

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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."...
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Rudolf Eucken (1846-1926)

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German philosopher, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1908. ...
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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

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"England is a most marvellous country, but one is not, till one knows the eccentricities of large land-owners, trained to accept kangaroos, zebras, or beavers as part of its landscape." ...
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Ne Pyllin e Kundershtive

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Fjalim i mbajtur në Stockholm, 7 dhjetor 2008, me rastin e marrjes së Çmimit Nobel (J.M.G. Le Clézio)...
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Conrad Aiken (1889-1973)

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"All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die, And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny and by." (from 'All Lovely Things Will Have an Ending') ...
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Joseph Brodsky

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He wrote mostly about literature, evaluating Auden as "the greatest mind of the twentieth century" and Osip Mandelshtam "a poet of and for civilization"....
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J.M. Coetzee

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South-African novelist, critic, and translator, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. The violent history and politics of his native country, especially apartheid, has provided Coetzee much raw material for his work, but none of his books have been censored by the authorities....
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Elias Canetti

Canetti graduated in 1929 with a Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of Vienna. In the early 1930s he translated works by the American writer Upton Sinclair. ...
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Moon

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The reflection of the beautiful moon ... ...
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2008

The Swedish Academy which awarded him the Nobel Prize hailed him as an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilisation." ...
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