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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6ec042e | Durante los meses que siguieron, solo pense en ella, en la posibilidad de volver a verla. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| dd64ec2 | La muerte tampoco es mi tipo y no obstante muchas veces me atrae. | muerte | Ernesto Sabato | |
| 6f2b26e | Oh, you know what bloggers are like, they write and write and write. I don't know why, because they're not being paid. | psychology psycopaths | Jon Ronson | |
| 48e0363 | As somebody back then wrote, "Facebook is where you lie to your friends, Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." | Jon Ronson | ||
| b517ed6 | We see ourselves as nonconformist, but I think all of this is creating a more conformist, conservative age. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 7bc3eb8 | I continued, "The painting shows this fish with a big eye and a halo, floating in air, and underneath the fish are all these Native Americans having sex." "What? What does that have to do with Custer's Last Stand?" "Well, the painting is titled, Holy Mackerel, Look at All Those Fucking Indians." | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 48a7033 | To have a full stomach, to daze lazily in the sunshine--such things were remuneration in full for his adors and toils, while his ardors and toils were in themselves self-remunerative. They were expressions of life, and life is always happy when it is expressing itself. | Jack London | ||
| 6106122 | what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst. | jo-s-boys louisa-may-alcott youth | Louisa May Alcott | |
| aef76d8 | I think we are all hopelessly flawed. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 9fa4f87 | The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind. | louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 2f958f4 | In her secret soul, however, she decided that politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names... | louisa-may-alcott politics | Louisa May Alcott | |
| ae6d2ae | I Know I shall be homesick for you... Even in heaven | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| a9fc250 | M]an is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, in other respect is free; because, once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. The Existentialist does not believe in the power of passion. He will never agree that a sweeping passion is a ravaging torrent which fatally leads a man to certain acts and is therefore an excuse. He thinks that man is responsible for his passion. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| f1c8134 | J'ai envie de partir, de m'en aller quelque part ou je serais vraiment a ma place, ou je m'emboiterais... Mais ma place n'est nulle part; je suis de trop. | existentialism | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| 24048c5 | The Nausea is not inside me: I feel it out there in the wall, in the suspenders, everywhere around me. It makes itself one with the cafe, I am the one who is within it. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| e9b9f37 | And I too wanted to be. That is all I wanted; and this is the last word. At the bottom of all these attempts which seemed without bounds, I find the same desire again: to drive existence out of me, to rid the passing moments of their fat, to twist them, dry them, purify myself, harden myself, to give back at last the sharp, precise sound of a saxophone note. That could even make an apologue: there was a poor man who got in the wrong world. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 48c35e7 | The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy. Elaborate euphemisms may conceal your intent to kill, but behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: "I feed on y.. | politics power time violence | Frank Herbert | |
| 1f146bf | People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 05eada7 | Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance. | Frank Herbert | ||
| f46874b | Reason is the first victim of strong emotion," Scytale murmured." | emotion reason scytale | Frank Herbert | |
| 0d8053f | Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears - fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure"." | Julia Cameron | ||
| 3d27206 | Come se nel cuore della natura di uno scrittore ci fosse la purezza. Il cielo aiuti un simile scrittore! Come se Joyce non avesse annusato oscenamente le mutande di Nora. Come se nell'anima di Dostoevskij non avesse mai bisbigliato Svidrigailov. Nel cuore della natura di uno scrittore c'e il capriccio. Curiosita, fissazioni, isolamento, veleno, feticismo, austerita, leggerezza, perplessita, infantilismo eccetera. Il naso nella cucitura di u.. | Philip Roth | ||
| 5720755 | Enter no conflict against fanatics unless you can defuse them. Oppose a religion with another religion only if your proofs (miracles) are irrefutable or if you can mesh in a way that the fanatics accept you as god-inspired. This has long been the barrier to science assuming a mantle of divine revelation. Science is so obviously man-made. Fanatics (and many are fanatic on one subject or another) must know where you stand, but more important,.. | dune | Frank Herbert | |
| 19ad0b9 | You do not beg the sun for mercy. -Maud'dib's Travail from The Stilgar Commentary | mercy sun | Frank Herbert | |
| 9f319c0 | The sight of the bare katana inspires everyone to a practically Nipponese level of politeness | Neal Stephenson | ||
| a43d42b | Most of the brain's work is done while the brain's owner is ostensibly thinking about something else, so sometimes you have to deliberately find something else to think and talk about. | recreation synthesis thought | Neal Stephenson | |
| 0bde84e | To hear people talk, you would think no one ever did anything but love each other. But when you look for it, when you search out this love everyone is always talking about, it is nowhere to be found; and when someone looks for love from you, you find you are not able to give it, you are not able to hold the trust and dreams they want you to hold, any more than you could cradle water in your arms. | Paul Murray | ||
| 867ba15 | I am beginning to understand the true difference between youth and age. Young people have time to make plans and think of new ideas. Older people need their whole energy to keep up with what's already been set in motion. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 5f785a8 | We always worry about the wrong things, don't we? | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 457d8d6 | Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It's James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it's Marilyn heading off to bed. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 9151e7d | Here is what unsayable about us: Jonathan and I are members of a team so old nobody else could join even if we wanted them to. What binds us is stronger than sex. It is stronger than love. We're related. Each of us is the other born into a different flesh. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| fdbfdf7 | My house fly theory is related to my theory about why time seems to go faster as you get older." "Why's that?" the girl asked. "It's proportional," Leonard explained. "When you're five, you've only been alive a couple thousand days. But by the time you're fifty, you've lived around twenty thousand days. So a day when you're five seems longer because it's a greater percentage of the whole." | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| bd2ea3b | that since Cecilia's suicide, the Lisbons could hardly wait for night to forget themselves in sleep. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| b350aab | In order to "win a man to your cause," Lincoln explained, you must first reach his heart, "the great high road to his reason." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 3f35483 | With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| e71c5f6 | All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem. | problem | Stephen R. Covey | |
| 8511090 | Principles are the territory. Values are maps. When we value correct principles, we have truth -- a knowledge of things as they are. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 427099f | Albert Einstein observed, "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 920cbb1 | My ignorance is based on this understanding. Your understanding is based on ignorance. This is why I am a humorous fool, and you are a serious jackass. | Dan Millman | ||
| 76fb6c1 | Process transforms any journey into a series of small steps, taken one by one, to reach any goal. Process transcends time, teaches patience, rests on a solid foundation of careful preparation, and embodies trust in our unfolding potential. | Dan Millman | ||
| 6bd8027 | a dream without a plan is just a wish | Katherine Paterson | ||
| 4141175 | And when that happens, I know it. A message saying so merely confirms a piece of news some secret vein had already received, severing from me an irreplaceable part of myself, letting it loose like a kite on a broken string. That is why, walking across a school campus on this particular December morning, I keep searching the sky. As if I expected to see, rather like hearts, a lost pair of kites hurrying towards heaven. | Truman Capote | ||
| 1be076b | He wants awfully to be inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a glass is liable to look stupid. | Truman Capote | ||
| b8a0e2e | But, my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incompleted episodes? 'We work in the dark, we do what we can, we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task...' It is wanting to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something. | Truman Capote |