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“I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s...”
– ~ Haruki Murakami (via gatekeeper)
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Czech beer (lager)  is considered to be among the best in the world. This is not surprising, given that the Czechs invented lager. It was first produced by the Mestansky Pivovar (town brewery) of Pilsen in 1842. At the time, glass had recently started to be used as drinking vessel and the golden colour of the newly processed lager became quickly more attractive than the muddy brown traditional ...
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IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC THERE ARE MANY...
The waiter will bring you beers without being asked, until you say “zaplatim” (meaning that you’re ready to pay). Don’t share a beer, don’t finish someone’s beer and don’t pour beer from on glass to another. In the Czech Republic, toasting and drinking are taken very seriously. The common toast is : Na zdrav�!  (To your health!). You should look into...
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“To be too conscious is an illness - a real thoroughgoing illness”
– Fyodor Dostoevski vía Quotegarden
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“Life is not about significant details, illuminated in a flash, fixed forever....”
– Susan Sontag (via sabino) (via booklover)
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“One way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a...”
– Gustave Flaubert (via flickflickflicker) (via booklover)
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“Scarlett O’Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her...”
– Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind (via first-lines)
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“La vida es una partida y hay que vivirla de acuerdo con las reglas del juego”
– Holden Caulfield- The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger (via alternoso)
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“Antes trataba de ser un gran ejemplo para la familia, los amigos. Ahora ya se...”
– Carla Peterson en Viva
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“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via kari-shma)
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IN BELGIUM AND FRANCE, SLAPPING THE BACK OF THE...
A firm tap on the hand is used to express « lets go », or  « go away » particularly in France and Belgium.  Origin : This gesture could symbolise the knife which cuts the hand of a thief and expresses « this is what you can expect as your punishment before going to jail ». This forced departure of a burglar could be the symbolic origin of this « get...
Jan 27th
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Listenkari-shma:Pink Floyd | Wish you were here
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“Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest...”
– Voltaire vía Quotegarden
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“No hay barrera, cerradura ni cerrojo que puedas imponer a la libertad de mi...”
– Virginia Woolf (via alternoso) (via popmodernidad)
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“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as...”
– Oscar Wilde (via kari-shma)
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“There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who...”
– C.G. Jung vía Quotegarden
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IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM, WHEN SOMEONE 'TWISTS' HIS...
This gesture could derive from reference to a corkscrew. It could also derive from the French expression for drunkenness “avoir un verre dans le nez”, literally meaning “to have a glass in the nose”. vía Fastenseatbelts
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