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“Melancholy acts as an internal irritant, like a grain of sand in an oyster, which, against all odds, forces the creation of a pearl.”
For Mateusz, RIP Writing has become, or maybe has always been, a venting mechanism for me. It often comes in bursts of emotions I channel through rhythm, verse and rhyme, as poetry hides feeling behind structure. But when the sorrow… Continue Reading →
“The fact that the object of one’s love was a fraud doesn’t make one’s capacity to love a fraud.”
Editor’s note: This entry is part of an ongoing series of personal essays by the author on love and life. You can read here parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 & 11. (For my friend… Continue Reading →
Editor’s note: This entry is part of an ongoing series of personal essays by the author on love and life. You can read here parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 & 10. The modern world has… Continue Reading →
Read the foreword for Libertas Press upcoming book, Achaean Disputes, authored by The Libertarian Catholic Contributing Editor, Ugo Stornaiolo S., and delving in matters of mediaeval history, law & genealogy.
By Mario J. Haas (Editor’s note: This essay is a response to Ugo Stornaiolo’s Cultural Statelessness & the Mirage of Belonging) This recent article gave me a lot of insight, and it was especially interesting to me, because it is… Continue Reading →
In friendship, we find true equality, both as fellow travelers along the way of life, and as unmovable anchors of reason when our loved ones do wrong. That is the meaning of a friend. And that may be the first and foremost form of love we must cultivate for a virtuous life.
For those suffering of culturally statelessness, being Catholic might be their main cultural identity, because it is the one universal thing that can bring together cultures so dissimilar like the ones that compose their overall fragmented background.
Just like Leo Tolstoy and Mark Fisher did, writing about our emotions is a hard topic, not because it means introspection, but because it leaves us vulnerable to external interpretations, that more than often come not with kindness but with ill intent.
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