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Nu gasesti umilitor ca ai fi putut fi cu desavarsire altul daca te-ai fi nascut la New York in loc de a te naste la Bucuresti? Noi toti suntem din in… - Mircea Eliade
" "Nu gasesti umilitor ca ai fi putut fi cu desavarsire altul daca te-ai fi nascut la New York in loc de a te naste la Bucuresti? Noi toti suntem din intamplare asa cum suntem. Am fi putut citi alte carti in liceu, am fi putut cunoaste alti oameni, am fi putut calatori in alte tari, am fi putut iubi alte femei...
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About Mircea Eliade
Mircea Eliade (13 March 1907 {O.S. 28 February} – 22 April 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. His most enduring and influential contribution to religious studies was possibly his theory of Eternal Return, which holds that myths and rituals do not simply record or imitate hierophanies, but, at least to the minds of the religious, actually participate in them.
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Nu-ţi dai seama ce copleşitor lucru e să simţi, câteodată, că timpul ţi-a luat-o înainte, că n-ai făcut anumite lucruri esenţiale la vremea lor şi că ai să te trezeşti într-o bună zi singur, îmbătrânit, incapabil de a mai repara ceva. Căci ceea ce mă apăsa mai mult în după-amiaza aceea era sentimentul ireparabilului. A trecut ceva, a trecut, şi eu n-am băgat de seamă... E cumplit să-ţi dai seama de asta...
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"It is above all the valorizing of the present that requires emphasizing. The simple fact of existing, of living in time, can comprise a religious dimension. This dimension is not always obvious, since sacrality is in a sense camouflaged in the immediate, in the "natural" and the everyday. The joy of life discovered by the Greeks is not a profane type of enjoyment: it reveals the bliss of existing, of sharing — even fugitively — in the spontaneity of life and the majesty of the world. Like so many others before and after them, the Greeks learned that the surest way to escape from time is to exploit the wealth, at first sight impossible to suspect, of the lived instant."
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