# Moments by Mihai **@ho_pirjolmihaiad** ## Quick Navigation - [Find Partners](https://www.hellotalk.com/partners.md): Discover language exchange partners worldwide - [Language Exchange](https://www.hellotalk.com/partners/exchange.md): Practice with native speakers worldwide - [Moments](https://www.hellotalk.com/moments.md): Share your language learning journey - [Topics](https://www.hellotalk.com/topics.md): Explore trending topics and discussions - [Chat & Messaging](https://www.hellotalk.com/features/chat.md): Text, voice, and video conversations - [Voice Rooms](https://www.hellotalk.com/features/voiceroom.md): Join live audio conversations - [Live Streaming](https://www.hellotalk.com/features/live-streaming.md): Interactive classes and language sessions - [Certified Teachers](https://www.hellotalk.com/features/certified-teachers.md): Learn from professional language instructors - [Immersive Learning](https://www.hellotalk.com/features/immersive-learning.md): Learn everywhere with instant translations - [Translation Tools](https://www.hellotalk.com/features/translation.md): Instant translation between any languages - [AI-Powered Apps](https://www.hellotalk.com/aiapps.md): Access specialized learning tools - [Language AI Apps](https://www.hellotalk.com/aiapps.md): Discover our AI-powered language learning applications - [All Features](https://www.hellotalk.com/features.md): Explore all learning features and tools - [Download](https://www.hellotalk.com/download.md): Get HelloTalk on iOS and Android Showing 30 of 41 moments --- ## 1. 8/17/2025 The Blair Witch Project (1999) felt different from any other horror. Three students went into the woods and never came back — only their tapes were found. The marketing was so clever, with fake news and websites, that people actually thought it was real. Made on a tiny budget of around $60,000, it went on to make nearly $250 million worldwide. And honestly, even today, most horror movies don’t hold a candle to this one. 🎩 **Language**: English *30 likes · 7 comments · 1687 views* [View this moment](https://www.hellotalk.com/moments/uEPPDwTMtIujHD.md) --- ## 2. 6/9/2025 "Through the darkness of future past, The magician longs to see. One chants out between two worlds: Fire walk with me.” -Twin Peaks, directed by David Lynch 🎩❤️ **Language**: English *23 likes · 2 comments · 956 views* [View this moment](https://www.hellotalk.com/moments/FTEGAmNcXGptHD.md) --- ## 3. 4/26/2025 Krzysztof Kieślowski 🎩 **Language**: Polish *10 likes · 1 comments · 200 views* [View this moment](https://www.hellotalk.com/moments/V2R2zQPWuzFMDD.md) --- ## 4. 3/21/2025 Book: A short history of decay Chapter: Overworked by Dreams Writer: Emil M. Cioran ❤️ If we could conserve the energy we lavish in that series of dreams we nightly leave behind us, the mind’s depth and subtlety would reach unimaginable proportions. The scaffolding of a nightmare requires a nervous expenditure more exhausting than the best articulated theoretical construction. How, after waking, begin again the task of aligning ideas when, in our unconscious, we were mixed up with grotesque and marvelous spectacles, we were sailing among the spheres without the shackles of anti-poetic Causality? For hours we were like drunken gods — and suddenly, our open eyes erasing night's infinity, we must resume, in day’s mediocrity, the enterprise of insipid problems, without any of the night’s hallucinations to help us. The glorious and deadly fantasy was all for nothing then; sleep has exhausted us in vain. Waking, another kind of weariness awaits us; after having had just time enough to forget the night’s, we are at grips with the dawn’s. We have labored hours and hours in horizontal immobility without our brain’s deriving the least advantage of its absurd activity. After each night we are emptier: our mysteries and our griefs have leaked away into our dreams. Thus sleep’s labor not only diminishes the power of our thought, but even that of our secrets... **Language**: English *12 likes · 210 views* [View this moment](https://www.hellotalk.com/moments/tGyGVvyLMcqcDD.md) --- ## 5. 2/28/2025 📖 Cioran, Notebooks "In many ways, I am more sociable than many people. And yet, how afraid I am of beings! And how well I understand those who have reduced existence to a dialogue with God!" **Language**: English *15 likes · 244 views* [View this moment](https://www.hellotalk.com/moments/WTnUSMZvumWMDD.md) --- ## 6. 2/21/2025 "I would be more willing to go out if slapping people was allowed." 📖 Cioran, Notebooks **Language**: English *10 likes · 1 comments · 241 views* [View this moment](https://www.hellotalk.com/moments/JWtlVjZutPqWDD.md) --- ## 7. 1/23/2025 A small passage from what I read today. Book: The Trouble with Being Born 📖 Author: Emil M.Cioran🎩 "By what right do you start praying for me? I have no need for intercessors. From a wretch, perhaps I might accept, but from no one else, saint or not. I cannot tolerate others worrying about my salvation; if I fear it and try to escape it, your prayers are nothing but irritating. Take them away from here. Anyway, we do not serve the same gods. If mine are powerless, I have every reason to believe that yours are no better. And even assuming that they are as mighty as you imagine, they would still lack the power to cure me of a fear older than my own memory." Cioran had paid too much suffering for his quests to accept the defiant mercy of a believer. He never forgot the torture inflicted on him by the insomnia of his youth, the nights spent with his forehead pressed against the windowpane, staring into the darkness for hours. --- And in another passage: "To my misfortune, I believe in my ideas because I have lived them, felt them, endured them all. I did not write with blood; I wrote with all the tears I never cried." 🖤 **Language**: English *9 likes · 1 comments · 254 views* [View this moment](https://www.hellotalk.com/moments/zIVvL4XFFIHcDD.md) --- ## 8. 1/17/2025 My resume about what I read today. Book: The syllogisms of Bitterness Author: Emil M. Cioran🎩 "If I would believe in God," he says in a famous passage from The Syllogisms of Bitterness, "I would be able to walk down the street naked." And also in The Syllogisms of Bitterness: "Every belief confers arrogance; those who do not share it appear as defeated and powerless, deserving only pity and disdain. Look at all those who have managed to make God an accomplice to their schemes—the converts, the newly rich of the Absolute." Although Cioran was not a believer, he had a formidable awareness of the demands that faith imposes: "I have such a lofty idea of the obligations that come with being a believer that I would fear to have faith. It seems absurd and ridiculous to invoke God yet behave like the rest of mankind. And yet, that is precisely what happens. It has been a long time since believers ceased to be strange, mysterious, exceptional phenomena. When believers exist, they are like everyone else, as if they do not exist at all." Reading Cioran, I feel him closer to God than those who have made faith into a badge of honor.🌹 **Language**: English *10 likes · 3 comments · 212 views* [View this moment](https://www.hellotalk.com/moments/LwZUWUuaFERcDD.md) --- ## 9. 1/8/2025 One of those books that I will carry with me to the grave. "Oblomov sank into thought again. 'Now or never!' Listening to the desperate call of his mind and strength, he realized and measured that he still had some scraps of willpower left. He wondered where to direct himself, what to use that anemic remainder for. After some tormenting thoughts, he dipped the pen, took a book from a corner, and, in an hour, wanted to read, to write, and to rethink everything he hadn't read, written, or thought about in ten years." 🥹 -Oblomov, by Ivan Gonvearov(1859) **Language**: English *7 likes · 177 views* [View this moment](https://www.hellotalk.com/moments/VJHtyNLzOIDMDD.md) --- ## 10. 1/6/2025 Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922, F.W. Murnau) Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979, Werner Herzog) Nosferatu (2024, Robert Eggers) "Does evil come from within us, or from beyond?" 🎩 **Language**: English *16 likes · 2 comments · 962 views* [View this moment](https://www.hellotalk.com/moments/p3nWWMBPvNZMDD.md) --- ## 11. 1/2/2025 "Mirror"(1975) directed by Andrei Tarkovski. 🎩❤️ **Language**: English *9 likes · 148 views* [View this moment](https://www.hellotalk.com/moments/PKEPtFxDStNMDD.md) --- ## 12. 1/1/2025 Andrei Rublev (1966), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, is a cinematic masterpiece that explores the life and work of the legendary 15th-century Russian icon painter, Andrei Rublev. The film is a profound meditation on art, faith, and human suffering. ❤️ **Language**: English *16 likes · 160 views* [View this moment](https://www.hellotalk.com/moments/BVObpQPFFFxWDD.md) --- ## 13. 12/1/2024 "When the famous Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky [...] was a prisoner in Siberia, far from the world, between four walls and surrounded by endless snow-desolate plains, and asked for help in a letter to his distant family, he only said: "Send me books, books, many books so that my soul does not die!" “He was cold and asked not for fire, he was very thirsty and asked not for water: he asked for books, that is, horizons, that is, stairs to climb to the summit of the spirit and heart." ❤️ - Federico Garcia Lorca - Spanish poet and playwright **Language**: English *9 likes · 2 comments · 250 views* [View this moment](https://www.hellotalk.com/moments/V5SbRjvOymnVDD.md) --- ## 14. 11/23/2024 there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace those who preach god, need god those who preach peace do not have peace those who preach peace do not have love beware the preachers beware the knowers beware those who are always reading books beware those who either detest poverty or are proud of it beware those quick to praise for they need praise in return beware those who are quick to censor they are afraid of what they do not know beware those who seek constant crowds for they are nothing alone beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average but there is genius in their hatred there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you to kill anybody not wanting solitude not understanding solitude they will attempt to destroy anything that differs from their own not being able to create art they will not understand art they will consider their failure as creators only as a failure of the world not being able to love fully they will believe your love incomplete and then they will hate you and their hatred will be perfect like a shining diamond like a knife like a mountain like a tiger like hemlock their finest art. -The Genius Of The Crowd, by Charles Bukowski🎩 **Language**: English *10 likes · 186 views* [View this moment](https://www.hellotalk.com/moments/PWNRtlDvZwPVDD.md) --- ## 15. 11/6/2024 In real life, we say 'I love you' but in , "White Nights", we say: "I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can't help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year. May your sky always be clear, may your dear smile always be bright and happy, and may you be forever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?" 📖 White Nights, by Fiodor Dostoyevski In "Twilight of the Idols" (Götzen-Dämmerung), Nietzsche wrote: "Dostoevsky is the only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn. He is one of the happiest accidents of my life."🥹 This is the finest tribute I have ever read about Dostoyevski. ❤️ **Language**: English *13 likes · 2 comments · 223 views* [View this moment](https://www.hellotalk.com/moments/LNWRNUPGXKqbDD.md) --- ## 16. 11/1/2024 "I’m nothing. I’ll always be nothing. I can’t want to be something. But I have in me all the dreams of the world." 🖤 by our beloved, Fernando Pessoa 🎩 **Language**: English *15 likes · 130 views* [View this moment](https://www.hellotalk.com/moments/tIt4qPIMq2EbDD.md) --- ## 17. 10/28/2024 In the emptiness of 3 a.m., you walk with God ✨️ **Language**: English *17 likes · 165 views* [View this moment](https://www.hellotalk.com/moments/R4L5DcIlVxSbDD.md) --- ## 18. 10/27/2024 Morning run to catch the sun. 🥹 **Language**: English *15 likes · 1 comments · 138 views* [View this moment](https://www.hellotalk.com/moments/xlzRnWANVUObDD.md) --- ## 19. 10/15/2024 The Art of Conversation(1963) - René Magritte ❤️ **Language**: English *15 likes · 168 views* [View this moment](https://www.hellotalk.com/moments/xHAzqjBTucSLDD.md) --- ## 20. 10/8/2024 This is one of the most beautiful chapters I have ever read, a true masterpiece of words and emotion. 📖 Exercise in Admiration, by Emil Mihai Cioran. "She wasn’t from here... I only met her twice. That’s not much, but the extraordinary isn’t measured in time. She captivated me from the first moment with her absent and estranged air, her whispers (for she didn’t speak), her faltering gestures, her glances that hovered over beings and things, her being like an adorable specter. ‘Who are you? Where do you come from?’—that was the question you could ask her without hesitation. She couldn’t answer, as she was so absorbed in her own mystery or perhaps preferred not to betray it. No one would ever know how she managed to breathe, or what wandering had made her succumb to the magic of breath, or what she was doing among us. What’s certain is that she wasn’t from here, and that she shared in our decadence only out of politeness or some morbid curiosity. Only angels and the incurably ill can inspire a feeling similar to the one you felt in her presence. Fascination, supernatural disturbance! From the very first moment I saw her, I fell in love with her timidity, a unique, unforgettable timidity that gave her the appearance of an exhausted vestal in the service of a clandestine god or a mystic, wracked by longing or an excess of ecstasy, incapable of ever returning to the realities of the world!" ❤️ **Language**: English *10 likes · 1 comments · 159 views* [View this moment](https://www.hellotalk.com/moments/TSL3IIOzuvMVDD.md) --- ## 21. 9/25/2024 📖 The Book of Disquiet, by Fernando Pessoa "By day I am nothing, by night I am myself. There is no difference between me and the streets around the Alfândega, except that they are streets and I am a human soul, and this, when weighed against the essence of all things, might also count for little." ❤️ In this text, Pessoa explores the duality of existence, where the daytime is associated with meaninglessness, while the night allows a deeper connection to the self and introspection. **Language**: English *10 likes · 154 views* [View this moment](https://www.hellotalk.com/moments/XJSxTDqjBML4DD.md) --- ## 22. 9/19/2024 📖 Notebooks, by Emil Mihai Cioran "Because we have forgotten how to cry, we are all helpless, nailed down by our drained eyes." ❤️ This quote reflects the diminishing of emotional expression and the vulnerability that follows. It emphasizes how, when we forget or suppress our emotions, we become trapped in a state of powerlessness and exhaustion. **Language**: English *8 likes · 186 views* [View this moment](https://www.hellotalk.com/moments/LHZtWUZcWUV4DD.md) --- ## 23. 9/19/2024 On December 22, 1957, Cioran wrote in his Notebooks: "Superhuman void, sudden collapse of all the certainties laboriously acquired in these last years." 🎩❤️ This reflects his deep sense of despair and existential emptiness. **Language**: English *6 likes · 177 views* [View this moment](https://www.hellotalk.com/moments/MaBSnEEWuuV4DD.md) --- ## 24. 9/13/2024 Iconic. 🎥 The Dark Knight(2008) 🎬 Dir. Christopher Nolan **Language**: English *9 likes · 132 views* [View this moment](https://www.hellotalk.com/moments/nEFKrRWtqzpbDD.md) --- ## 25. 9/9/2024 🎥 The Seventh Seal(1957) 🎩❤️ 🎬 Dir. Ingmar Bergman **Language**: English *11 likes · 173 views* [View this moment](https://www.hellotalk.com/moments/WvETLuHyxmHbDD.md) --- ## 26. 9/4/2024 🎥 Requiem for a dream.(2000) 🎩 **Language**: English *9 likes · 181 views* [View this moment](https://www.hellotalk.com/moments/OHnWNkZzZjRbDD.md) --- ## 27. 8/19/2024 "What does it mean to be skeptical? Not believing yourself to be the center of the world. But it only takes a moment of inattention, a brief lapse of consciousness, for us to suddenly revert to the oldest and most vital error." On the Heights of the Despair ❤️ (Emil Cioran) **Language**: English *12 likes · 1 comments · 244 views* [View this moment](https://www.hellotalk.com/moments/MIFStQRlIzxVDD.md) --- ## 28. 8/1/2024 Every window has a different story. **Language**: English *14 likes · 5 comments · 193 views* [View this moment](https://www.hellotalk.com/moments/AmrDNMIGEQnKDD.md) --- ## 29. 7/26/2024 A small passage from Emil Mihai Cioran's diary. "I have known to the point of satiety the religious drama of the unbeliever, his nullity here, his nonexistence beyond, crushed between two certainties." Condemned to insomnia, Cioran meets God at the end of his unbearable loneliness. At 25, he notes: "God's appearance coincides with the first stirrings of solitude." "No one believes in God except to avoid the tormenting monologue of loneliness. Could we address anyone else? He seems glad for any dialogue and does not mind being chosen as the theatrical pretext for our solitary sorrows. Loneliness without God is pure madness. In Him, we place our wanderings and thus heal our mind and heart. For God is a good guide of sorrows and despair. Extreme loneliness requires a form of conversation that is equally extreme. Everything I have written was born in the dead of night. What constitutes the originality of the night? Everything ceases to exist; there is only you, alone, with the silence and the void. You are alone as only God can be alone. Absolute loneliness demands a dialogue partner." 🎩 **Language**: English *12 likes · 3 comments · 208 views* [View this moment](https://www.hellotalk.com/moments/FQOVxzx2VQTKDD.md) --- ## 30. 7/18/2024 I read today "The Overcoat", by Nikolai Gogol. It quickly became one of my favorite short stories (60 pages). Dostoyevski said about this book, "We all came out of Gogol's Overcoat". (Мы все вышли из гоголевской 'Шинели'). ❤️ I hope to live long enough to read all these masterpieces. **Language**: English *11 likes · 5 comments · 209 views* [View this moment](https://www.hellotalk.com/moments/EwFVxlMuE3JUDD.md) --- [View all moments on HelloTalk](https://www.hellotalk.com/partners/ho_pirjolmihaiad/moments.md) [Back to Mihai's profile](https://www.hellotalk.com/partners/ho_pirjolmihaiad.md) --- ## Language Exchange Partners - [English Exchange Partners](https://www.hellotalk.com/partners/exchange/english.md): Connect with native English speakers - [Spanish Exchange Partners](https://www.hellotalk.com/partners/exchange/spanish.md): Connect with native Spanish speakers - [French Exchange Partners](https://www.hellotalk.com/partners/exchange/french.md): Connect with native French speakers - [Japanese Exchange Partners](https://www.hellotalk.com/partners/exchange/japanese.md): Connect with native Japanese speakers - [German Exchange Partners](https://www.hellotalk.com/partners/exchange/german.md): Connect with native German speakers - 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