Ram
The actress Marilu Henner suffers from a rare syndrome: hyperthymesia, which irremediably anchors in her memory the smallest details, futile or striking, of past episodes of her life. She r
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Bull
The American woman of letters Elizabeth Bishop was amazed at the extent to which so many of our fellow human beings nurtured a “fascination for excess”. We live “in a huge world, roar
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Gemini
In the weeks to come, you will have an exacerbated need for tactile contacts. For your mental, physical and spiritual well-being, multiply the exchanges of caresses with your loved ones, feel as often as
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Cancer
“In truth, I only ever wanted to live hidden, protected, defended, to bury myself in a warm place like a matrix and to hide myself there, sheltered from the indifferent gaze of the sky and the nuisances of an atmosphere.
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Lion
“We want to channel rage into a cooking fire rather than letting it explode into a devastating fire,” writes American storyteller and psychologist Clarissa Pinkola Estés. Such is the
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Virgin
Asked if she fell in love often, British poet Jeanette Winterson replied: “Yes, often ; of a landscape, of a book, of a dog, of a cat, of numbers, of friends, of
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Balance
In 1828, after twenty-seven years of meticulous research and intense labor, the American lexicographer Noah Webster published his famous dictionary, which would become the great reference for English.
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Scorpio
“Wouldn’t it be appropriate to increase the distance between the impossible and the improbable?” asks the poet Luke Johnson. The company seems to me indeed to have waited only too long, and I charge you with the m
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Sagittarius
“It’s very hard to tell the exact truth, even about our immediate feelings – much harder than to say something beautiful about them that isn’t positively true,” noted the romance
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Capricorn
“Knowing how to be solitary is essential to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape.” I offer for your reflection this judicious
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Aquarius
In April 2005, at the age of 65, Korean Cha Sa-soon tried to get her driver’s license. She was turned down. In his defense, the written exam was not easy, because it required notions of
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Pisces
In the VIIIe century, having received from his friend and colleague Du Fu a collection of new poems, the Chinese poet Li Bai thanked him in these terms: “Reading your last poems, I had the impression of being
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