Doesn't the theory of relativity concern literature too? In our world there is no longer any room for … - Nina Berberova

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For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a 'rite of passage' and by asking students to simply 'get over it. ' Those attitudes need to change. Every day, students are bullied into silence and are afraid to speak up. Let's break this silence and end school bullying.

Nina Berberova

Doesn't the theory of relativity concern literature too? In our world there is no longer any room for the privileged observer, as there is none for the observer of the universe - we are all within.

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I had learnt to seek intensity rather than happiness, not joys and prosperity but more of life, a concentrated sense of life, a strengthened feeling of existence, fullness and concentration of pulse, energy, growth, flowering, beyond the image of happiness or unhappiness.

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Pearls. . . have a way of dying when separated from their owner.

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This is my main shortcoming: I was so determined not to lose time that I often did the wrong thing. Not losing time has been my permanent concern since I was three years old, when it dawned on me that time is the warp of life, its very fabric, something that you cannot buy, trade, steal, falsify, or obtain by begging.

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For many years I used the pronoun 'we. ' Now, as in my youth, I go to sleep and wake up alone.

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