January 2011
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What I seem to have discovered is that you can fail and still be happy. In fact,...
– William Fowler
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“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old...
– J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)
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20 Untranslatable Words from Around the World →
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1. Toska
Russian – Vladmir Nabokov describes it best: “No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick...
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