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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 73db1bd | It was, in part, a longing - common enough among the inventors of heroes - to be someone else; to be more than the result of two hundred regimens and scenarios and self-improvement campaigns that always ran afoul of his perennial inability to locate an actual self to be improved | Michael Chabon | ||
| e8502e5 | Get dressed,' Bina says. 'And do yourself a favor? Clean this shit up. Look at this dump. I can't believe you're living like this. Sweet God, aren't you ashamed of yourself?' Once Bina Gelbfish believed in Meyer Landsman. Or she believed from the moment she met him, that there was a sense in that meeting, that some detectable intention lay behind their marriage. They were twisted like a pair of chromosomes, of course they were, but where L.. | Michael Chabon | ||
| afb877c | dh kn lmqbl hw l'lm flyHl msr` , l'n Hyty mzlt 'mmy , wyjb 'n 'Hyh `l~ 'fDl nHw mmkn . dh kn `lyh 'n ykhtr , flyf`l `l~ lfwr . wdh dhk s'ntZrh 'w 'nsh . lntZr mw'lm wlnsyn mw'lm . lkn 'shq~ l`dhbt hy 'l ndry m lqrr | Paulo Coelho | ||
| f52d057 | Life is a fast, dizzing game; life is a parachute jump; it's taking chances, falling over and getting up again; it's mountaineering; it's wanting to get to the very top of yourself and to feel angry and dissatisfied when you don't manage it. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 88ad3d3 | I can't explain why, I just know. Do you remember the first question I ever asked you?" "Yes, you asked me if I knew what being crazy meant." "Exactly. This time I'm not going to tell you a story. I'll just say that insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It's as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that's going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being help.. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 8b77ea1 | I will be able to love above all discontentment. To give even when I am stripped of everything. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 22053a3 | ndm nHb l nHtj l~ 'n nfhm m yHdth l'n kl shy yHdth bdkhln | Paulo Coelho | ||
| eba453e | Waiting is painful.Forgetting is painful.But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 0cb53b2 | Fortunate are those who take the first step. Someday people will realize that men and women are capable of speaking the language of the angels - that all of us are possessed of the gifts of the Holy Spirit and that we can perform miracles, cure, prophesy, and understand. | faithfulness gifts-from-heaven holy-spirit miracles | Paulo Coelho | |
| 7042bd6 | When you want something, he entire universe conspires to help you achieve it. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 5516d86 | It's now what enters men's mouths that's evil. It's what comes out of their mouths that is. | language mouth tongue | Paulo Coelho | |
| f18c91d | They were so ignorant, so naive, so resigned to their lot. They refused to believe anything that didn't fit in with what they were used to believing. | paulo-coelho the-devil-and-miss-prym | Paulo Coelho | |
| cf50da5 | Our soul is governed by four invisible forces: love, death, power and time. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 398dcf8 | nHn bshr y llh wlndrk `Zmtn .rb~ mnHn~ ltwD` l'Tlb m'Htj lyh ,lnh m mn rGb@ tdhhb sd~ , wm mn Tlb l ylq~ stjb@ .kl mn y`rf `l~ 'kml wjh kyf yGdh~ rwHh fmnHn lshj`@ lnr~ rGbtn mqbl@ mn ynbw` Hkmtk ldh~ l ynDb .l ymknn 'n nbd' bfhm mn nHn l btqbl rGbtn | Paulo Coelho | ||
| e420b23 | lHy@ l`b@ `nyf@ hdhy@ . lHy@ h~ 'n trm~ bnfsk mn mZl@ w'n tjzf , n tsqT wtnhD mn kbwtk lHy@ . lHy@ h~ h~ 'n ttslq ljbl ltHk~ lrGb@ f~ tslq qm@ lnfs , wn lm ttwSl l~ dhlk , f`lyk 'n t`ysh qn` dhlyl. | life | Paulo Coelho | |
| e3b613c | lys Drwryan 'n n`rf shyTynn lk~ nlq~ llh | Paulo Coelho | ||
| ef2b7ba | Know what you want and try to go beyond your own expectations....set a very high goal, one that will be difficult to achieve. Because that is an artist's mission: to go beyond one's limits. An artist who desires very little and achieves it has failed in life. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 006c8ff | Without solitude, Love will not stay long by your side. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 9348ba1 | One day, I am going to write a travel guide containing only maps and addresses of hotels, and with the rest of the pages blank. That way, people will have to make their own initery, to discover themselves restaurants, monuments and all the magnificent things that every city has, but which are never mentioned because ' the history we have been taught' does not include them in the list of things you must see. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 17b0f74 | Could it be fear? But what could be worse than living a sad, gray life, in which every day is the same? What could be worse than the fear that everything will disappear, including my own soul, and leave me completely alone in this world when I once had everything I needed to be happy? | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 59082b5 | Transformations always occur during moments of crisis. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 51c483b | If someone is capable of loving his partner without restrictions, unconditionally, then he is manifesting the love of God. If the love of God becomes manifest, he will love his neighbor. If he loves his neighbor, he will love himself. If he loves himself, then everything returns to its proper place. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 13d5c9a | I don't know the secret of success - but the secret of failure is to always try to follow the will of others. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| f612509 | Let go of the idea that the path will lead you to your goal. The truth is that with each step we take, we arrive. Repeat that to yourself every morning: 'I've arrived.' That way you'll find it much easier to stay in touch with each second of your day. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| b3b78b5 | ny 'khsh~ lmwt , lkn m 'khshh 'kthr mn lmwt , hw 'n tDy` Hyty hb , w'hb lHb l'nh yHtwy `l~ 'shy tfwq fhmn , fhw ylqy Dw mn nw` khS , wlkn m ykhyfny hw m ylqyh hdh lDw mn Zll | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 00f56b2 | I love this man sitting before me now, because I do not possess him and he does not possess me. We are free in our mutual surrender; I need to repeat this dozens, hundreds, millions of times, until I finally believe my own words. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 24a4ccd | Love appears and says: "You think you're heading towards a specific point, but the whole justification for the goal's existence lies in your love for it. Rest a little,but as soon as you can, get up and carry on. Because ever since your goal found out that you were traveling toward it, it has been running to meet you." | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 1c51f96 | lmdh lns Hzn~? - hdh bsyT. nhm sjn trykhhm lkhS. lkl y`tqdwn n hdf lHy@ lssy hw tb` mkhTT m. l yslwn bdan n kn hdh lmkhTT mkhTThm 'm n shkhS akhr qd wD`h lhm. hm yrkmwn ltjrb, ldhkryt, lshy, fkr lkhryn, whdh yfwq mymknhm mjrth. wlhdh ynswn 'Hlmhm | Paulo Coelho | ||
| f1d4b8b | Even stopped clocks are right twice a day. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 99d3aa6 | The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility. | paulo-coelho | Paulo Coelho's | |
| 6c21657 | Sin was not created by God; it was created by us when we tried to transform what was inevitable into something subjective. We ceased to see the whole and came to see just one part; and that part is loaded with guilt, rules, good versus evil, and each side thinking it's right. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 88a659a | How does light enter a house? If the windows are open. How does light enter a human? If the door of love is open. | house love window | Paulo Coelho | |
| 13b3343 | Standing in a two-hour line makes people worry that they're not living in a democratic nation. | David Sedaris | ||
| 22dd166 | You don't always have to get too sexy to get to know a girl. | J.D Salinger | ||
| 1ea576c | Maybe I just worried too much about things. Maybe I consistently hesitated to risk letting the thing we had together deteriorate into a romance. I don't know any more. I used to know, but I lost the knowledge a long time ago. A man can't go along indefinitely carrying around in his pocket a key that doesn't fit anything. | time | J.D. Salinger | |
| 647961f | I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the pencilled notations in the margins of books in the college library. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 46af1cc | People always think something's all true. I don't give a damn, except that I get bored when people tell me to act my age. Sometimes I act a lot older than I am, I really do. But people never notice. People never notice anything. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| e7092a7 | if somebody at least listens it not too bad | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 389e357 | Ah, Sharon Lipschutz," said the young man. "How that name comes up. Mixing memory and desire." | J.D. Salinger | ||
| f353a44 | I want to watch it again tonight even though I know I won't have enough time to masturbate over the scene where the woman is getting drilled to death by a power drill since I have a date with Courtney at seven-thirty at Cafe Luxembourg. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 4b414cf | The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld: there's no end of virtual spaces in which to seek stimulation, but their very endlessness, the perpetual stimulation without satisfaction, becomes imprisoning. | boredom cyber cyberworld david-foster-wallace depression dissatisfaction distractions emptiness empty endlessness facebook facebook-addiction facebook-quotes filler first-world-problems jonathan-franzen loneliness lonely problems robinson-crusoe satisfaction solitary solitude stimulation suicide virtual void | Jonathan Franzen | |
| cd74170 | Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in their reach inward, via print, for a way out of loneliness. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| de37a87 | There's the imperative to keep secrets, and the imperative to have them known. How do you know that you're a person, distinct from other people? By keeping certain things to yourself. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 0bc2020 | Oh, misanthropy and sourness. Gary wanted to enjoy being a man of wealth and leisure, but the country was making it none too easy. All around him, millions of newly minted American millionaires were engaged in the identical pursuit of feeling extraordinary - of buying the perfect Victorian, of skiing the virgin slope, of knowing the chef personally, of locating the beach that had no footprints. There were further tens of millions of young A.. | Jonathan Franzen |