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Oct. 11：François Mauriac, Eleanor Roosevelt

François Charles Mauriac was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the Académie française, and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur in 1958.Wikipedia
Born: October 11, 1885, Bordeaux, France
Died: September 1, 1970, Paris, France
Spouse: Jeanne Lafon (m. 1913–1970)
Children: Claude Mauriac, Claire Mauriac, Luce Mauriac, Jean Mauriac
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No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.





François Mauriac, The Art of Fiction No. 2
“Every novelist ought to invent his own technique, that is the fact of the matter. Every novel worthy of the name is like another planet, whether large or small, which has its own laws just as it has its…
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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American politician, diplomat and activist. She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, having held the post from March 1933 to April 1945 during her ... Wikipedia
Born: October 11, 1884, New York City, New York, United States
Died: November 7, 1962, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
Full name: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Children: Elliott Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., MORE
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.


She was fierce in her support of civil rights, acceptance of European refugees and the need to end empires. It is tempting to think that in a different era, Eleanor Roosevelt could have become president of the United States

羅斯福夫人回憶錄Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962 / 伊莉納・羅斯福著

The Economist
2016年11月2日 1:50
In her newspaper column, “My Day”, she urged that refugees from abroad be let in to America. “People are not throwing Americans out of work to employ refugees,” she wrote in 1939, sounding a theme that resonates today

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4月18日：George Henry Lewes (1817-1878) : Clarence Darrow (1857-1938)舌辯大師丹諾；Samuel Huntington

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Sep. 24：Euripides, Horace Walpole, Pablo Neruda

Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, also known as Horace Walpole, was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician. Wikipedia Born :  September 24, 1717,  London, United Kingdom Died :  March 2, 1797,  Berkeley Square, London, United Kingdom Movies :  Castle of Otranto Parents :  Robert Walpole ,  Catherine, Lady Walpole Quotes The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie. To mark the tercentenary of the birth of Horace Walpole (1717–1797), English author, antiquarian, collector, and politician, the Lewis Walpole Library is sponsoring programs throughout the year to ...
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June 6th :Thomas Mann, Robert "Bobby" Kennedy, Carl Jung, Alexander Pushkin

Paul Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. Wikipedia Born :  June 6, 1875,  Free City of Lübeck Died :  August 12, 1955,  Zürich, Switzerland Everyman's Library 12小時  ·  Paul Thomas Mann was born in Lübeck, German Empire on this day in 1875. In 1929 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. "Writing well was almost the same  as thinking well, and thinking well was the next thing to acting well. All moral discipline, all moral perfection derived from the soul of literature, from the soul of human dignity, which was the moving spirit of both humanity and politics. Yes, they were all one, one and the same force, one and the same idea, and all of them could be comprehended in one single word... The word was — civilization!" —from THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN by  Thomas Mann With rich novel of ideas, Thoma...
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