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Portia and Shylock by Edward Alcock
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Mercy

The quality of mercy is not strain’d,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven…
By William Shakespeare
Two Whales by Flavio Gasperini
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The Gigantic Tail

Out of the bottomless profundities the gigantic tail seems spasmodically snatching at the highest heaven.…
By Herman Melville
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A Writer

A writer, I say, must have not only a story to tell but a story…
By Lynn Freed
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Wing-Footed Wanderer

He only can create the greatest imaginable beauty who has endured all imaginable pangs, for…
By W. B. Yeats
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Miracles and Faith

It is not miracles that bring a realist to faith. A true realist, if he…
By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Christmas Eve in Siberia by Jacek Malczewski
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The Most Extravagant Possibilities

In this city they nonchalantly abandon themselves to the most extravagant possibilities. In their usual…
By Rainer Maria Rilke
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Threads of Life

The things a man has heard and seen are threads of life, and if he…
By W. B. Yeats
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A Damp, Drizzly November in My Soul

Some years ago – never mind how long precisely – having little or no money…
By Herman Melville
The Film-ballet “Anna Karenina” - Photo from the Museum of the Bolshoi Theatre
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When You See the Truth, What Are You To Do?

Where did I leave off? At the point that I cannot imagine a situation in…
By Leo Tolstoy
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The Miraculous Mildness of Her Face

But what filled me with wonder was the miraculous mildness of her face. There are…
By W. B. Yeats
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