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| f7410d8 | Have you ever wondered why the keys on a typewriter are arranged in that particular order?" "No, I haven't." "We call it the QWERTY keyboard, because that's the order of the letters on the first row of keys. I once wondered why it was like that, and I found the answer. The first machine was invented by Christopher Sholes, in 1873, to improve on calligraphy, but there was a problem: If a person typed very fast, the keys got stuck together .. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| a7bd6d5 | m`an nkhT ktb lHy@, lqtn mrswm@ mn lqdr, w'ydyn mtshbk@ fyymnn b'n ln 'n nHdth ltGyyr fy hdh l`lm, ml yshm bklm@ wbjml@ wbSwr@, wlkn fy lnhy@ kl dhlk yshkl m`n~; s`d@ lwHd hy s`d@ ljmy` | paulo-coelho | باولو كويلو | |
| 92aa771 | Y llegara el dia en el que los momentos dificiles seran solo historias que contaran, orgullosos, a aquellos que quieran escuchar. Y todos los oiran con respeto y aprenderan tres cosas importantes: A tener paciencia para esperar el momento justo de actuar. Sabiduria para no dejar escapar la siguiente oportunidad. Y orgullo de sus cicatrices. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 8c0cfe1 | but this loneliness exists and eats away at the best parts of us because we must use all our energy to appear happy, even though we will never be able to deceive ourselves. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 12c286e | flkhwf ystmr fqT Ht~ lnqT@ lty ybd' `ndh wqw` lmHZwr , `ndy'dh yfqd lkhwf m`nh , wl ytbq~ ln sw~ l'ml fy 'n nkwn qd tkhdhn lqrr lSHyH. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| e76970f | If one partner gives himself completely, he breaks down the barriers of the other, however strong they may be. Because the act of giving means: "I trust you". The other, who to begin with may feel rather intimidated, wanting to prove things which aren't even under discussion, is unarmed by the spontaneity of such an attitude, and relaxes. At that moment, true sexual energy comes into play." | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 3236d83 | All this was new to me. Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move towards the unknown - even when we don't want to and we think we don't need to. | life surprises | Paulo Coelho | |
| d91ae4d | hn fy hdh ljsd kn ywjd - dht mr@ - rjl. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 87e76a0 | Para la mayoria de las personas, la generosidad consiste en solo dar. Pero recibir es tambien un acto de amor. Permitir que el otro nos haga feliz tambien lo hara feliz a el. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| cbad4d6 | In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those who decide to die? | inspirational life people suicide survival writing | Paulo Coelho | |
| c87e763 | When we feel weak, all we have to do is wait a little while. The spring returns and the winter snows melt and fill us with new energy. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 8b8003a | So, a warrior of the light must be prepared to be patient at difficult times, and know that the Universe is conspiring in his favor, even if he does not understand how. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 3b99602 | Is it possible to fix love and make it stand still in time? Well, we can try, but that would turn our lives into a hell. I haven't been married for more than 20 years to the same person, because neither she nor I have remained the same. That's why our relationship is more alive than ever. I don't expect her to behave as she did when we first met. Nor does she want me to be the person I was when I found her. Love is beyond time, or, rather, .. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| cb81417 | In desperate attempt to give meaning to life, many turn to religion, because a struggle in the name of a faith is always a justification for some grand action that could transform the world. 'We are doing God's work,' they tell themselves. And they become devout followers, then evangelists and, finally, fanatics. They don't understand that religion was created in order to share the mystery and to worship, not to oppress or convert others. T.. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 250e576 | There is no tragedy, only the unavoidable. Everything has its reason for being: you only need to distinguish what is temporary from what is lasting. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 8d8f449 | yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments- but all of this is transitory; it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 63fbff9 | It wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact with myself. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 305b1ae | I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind. . . Are you listening to me?" Yes." You could tell he was trying to concentrate and all. It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in looking as if he might have played football in college. Then again, you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a se.. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 3fc19f4 | But I was afraid of the questions (much more than the accusations) you might both put to me. | fear questions | J.D. Salinger | |
| bb8fd32 | Danny is on my bed and depressed because Ricky was picked up by a break dancer at the Odyssey on the night of the Duran Duran look-alike contest and murdered. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| eb0ffe7 | To the soul, memory is more important than planning, art more compelling than reason, and love more fulfilling than understanding. | Thomas Moore | ||
| 8a1861e | She's afraid to tell me anything important, knowing I'll only turn around and write about it. In my mind, I'm like a friendly junkman, building things from the little pieces of scrap I find here and there, but my family's started to see things differently. Their personal lives are the so-called pieces of scrap I so casually pick up, and they're sick of it. More and more often their stories begin with the line "You have to swear you'll never.. | David Sedaris | ||
| ed1a740 | The message was that if something is free, you should only take the best. If, on the other hand, you're forced to pay, it's best to lower the bar and not be so choosy. | David Sedaris | ||
| 30c4c69 | Across town, over in the East Village, the graffiti was calling for the rich to be eaten, imprisoned, or taxed out of existence. Though it sometimes seemed like a nice idea, I hoped the revolution would not take place during my lifetime. I didn't want the rich to go away until I could at least briefly join their ranks. | David Sedaris | ||
| 964f742 | It all came down to money - the great equalizer and common denominator. | James Ellroy | ||
| 91a4de7 | lucid and quiet his voice hovered above the listeners, like a light, like a starry sky. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| e52e428 | Did all this make sense? | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 882efcf | If that was love, with cruelty here and humiliation there, then it was better to live without love. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 48e1be1 | I experienced by observing my own body and my own soul that I sorely needed sin, sorely needed concupiscence, needed greed, vanity, and the most shameful despair to learn to stop resisting, to learn to love the world and stop comparing it to some world I only wished for and imagined, some sort of perfection I myself had dreamed up, but instead to let it be as it was and to love it and be happy to belong to it. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| b754365 | I like listening to music, but only the kind you play, absolute music, the kind that makes you feel that someone is rattling at the doors if heaven and hell. I like music very much, I think, because it's so unconcerned with morality. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| e52b295 | Examine a person closely enough and you know more about him than he does himself. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 02a6b00 | It taught him how to listen -- how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 5c9e45f | I suddenly saw how sad and artificial my life had been during this period, for the loves, friends, habits and pleasures of these years were discarded like badly fitting clothes. I parted from them without pain and all that remained was to wonder that I could have endured them so long. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 16d6fae | Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and ugliness; accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, real hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap. A man of the Classical Age who had to live in medieval times would suffocate miserably just as a savage doe.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| d2387e2 | Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 381098e | Ours is only a little power, seems like, next to theirs," Moss said. "But it goes down deep. It's all roots. It's like an old blackberry thicket. And a wizard's power's like a fir tree, maybe, great and tall and grand, but it'll blow right down in a storm. Nothing kills a blackberry bramble." | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| b577241 | Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, after the praises have been spoken, and the good days remembered, and the lament cried, and the grave closed, there is no company in grief. It is a burden borne alone. | mourning solitude | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| de4eb71 | To see a candle's light, one must take it into a dark place. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 6af345a | What is more arrogant than honesty? | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| ab860c5 | He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 8c7af81 | As often as we made love I remembered what my poet told me, that this man was born of a goddess, the force that moves the stars and the waves of the sea and couples the animals in the fields in spring, the power of passion, the light of the evening star. | mythology passion poetry | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 01c0494 | The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can't lick 'em, join 'em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everythin.. | happiness intellectual pain | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 96f3242 | Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that's the end of it. When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; the hand that bears it is heavier. When it is thrown, the circuits of the stars respond, and where it strikes or falls the universe is changed. | universe | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| c0e2290 | There are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal. | Ursula K. Le Guin |