I se păruse că fusese păcălit, că cineva îşi bătuse joc de el lăsându-l să creadă că tinereţea nu e totuna cu numărul anilor, şi că poţi să-ţi numeri… - Mircea Eliade

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I se păruse că fusese păcălit, că cineva îşi bătuse joc de el lăsându-l să creadă că tinereţea nu e totuna cu numărul anilor, şi că poţi să-ţi numeri anii, unul după altul, ca şi cum ar fi vorba de altceva decât de propria ta viaţă care se scurge...

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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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Dar cel care a cunoscut unirea aceea de neînțeles pentru experiența și mintea omenească, știe că de la un anumit nivel viața nu mai are sfârșit, că omul moare pentru că e singur, e despărțit, despicat în două, dar că printr-o mare îmbrățișare se regăsește pe sine într-o ființă cosmică, autonomă și eternă.

As we have said before, for religious man nature is never only natural. Experience of a radically desacralized nature is a recent discovery; moreover, it is an experience accessible only to a minority in modem societies, especially to scientists. For others, nature still exhibits a charm, a mystery, a majesty in which it is possible to decipher traces of ancient religious values. No modern man, however irreligious, is entirely insensible to the charms of nature. We refer not only to the esthetic, recreational, or hygienic values attributed to nature, but also to a confused and almost indefinable feeling, in which, however, it is possible to recognize the memory of a debased religious experience.

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