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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.

Lucretius

Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Anand Thakur
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Amongst Arise Bitter Flower Fountain Spread
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Anand Thakur
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Anand Thakur
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Absence Blow Guilty Mindset
Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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Anand Thakur
You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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Anand Thakur
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Anand Thakur
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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Anand Thakur

From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.

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