1 From: Boris Kraut <krt@nurfuerspam.de>
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2 Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 20:15:22 +0100
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4 Message-ID: <20131202201522.TzUHVw@trauerweide>
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9 Subject: [.plan] Zitat des Tages
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10 Reply-To: Boris Kraut <krt@nurfuerspam.de>
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12 Leonardo Da Vinci - Notizbuecher (Uebersetzung: Jean Paul Richter):
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15 > A stone of some size recently uncovered by the water
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16 > lay on a certain spot somewhat raised, and just where
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17 > a delightful grove ended by a stony road; here it was
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18 > surrounded by plants decorated by various flowers of
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19 > divers colours. And as it saw the great quantity of
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20 > stones collected together in the roadway below, it
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21 > began to wish it could let itself fall down there,
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22 > saying to itself: "What have I to do here with these
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23 > plants? I want to live in the company of those, my
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26 > And letting itself fall, its rapid course ended among
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27 > these longed for companions. When it had been there
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28 > sometime it began to find itself constantly toiling
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29 > under the wheels of the carts the iron-shoed feet of
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30 > horses and of travellers. This one rolled it over,
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31 > that one trod upon it; sometimes it lifted itself a
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32 > little and then it was covered with mud or the dung
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33 > of some animal, and it was in vain that it looked at
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34 > the spot whence it had come as a place of solitude
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35 > and tranquil place.
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37 > Thus it happens to those who choose to leave a life
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38 > of solitary comtemplation, and come to live in cities
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39 > among people full of infinite evil.
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42 [0] http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5000/pg5000.txt
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43 [1] http://www.fabelnundanderes.at/leonardo_da_vinci.htm#Der_Stein
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