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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c8ffcfe | The relations one has with a woman one loves (and that can apply also to love for a youth) can remain platonic for other reasons than the chastity of the woman or the unsensual nature of the love she inspires. The reason may be that the lover is too impatient and by the very excess of his love is unable to await the moment when he will obtain his desires by sufficient pretence of indifference. Continually, he returns to the charge, he never.. | Marcel Proust | ||
| b3b2573 | that melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and realise that we have at last begun to live in real earnest, as a grown-up person, the life, the only life that any of us has at his disposal. | Marcel Proust | ||
| 34fc4e3 | Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet. | Marcel Proust | ||
| 73981ec | Unlike the animals, who knew only the present, Man had acquired a past; and he was beginning to grope toward a future. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| c71807f | The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is today. | Stephen M.R. Covey | ||
| 26a4856 | Chris Langan] told me not long ago. "I found if I go to bed with a question on my mind, all I have to do is concentrate on the question before I go to sleep and I virtually always have the answer in the morning. Sometimes I realize what the answer is because I dreamt the answer and I can remember it. Other times I just feel the answer, and I start typing and the answer emerges onto the page." | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 86f0d05 | Emotion goes inside-out. Emotional contagion, though, suggests that the opposite is also true. If I can make you smile, I can make you happy. If I can make you frown, I can make you sad. Emotion, in this sense, goes outside-in. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| d3110e2 | I've been in auditions without screens, and I can assure you that I was prejudiced. I began to listen with my eyes, and there is no way that your eyes don't affect your judgement. The only true way to listen is with your ears and your heart. (p.251) | blink ears eyes heart hypocrisy judgement justice music nonfiction prejudice science screens | Malcolm Gladwell | |
| 1d5546f | Mystery the moon A hole in the sky A supernatural nightlight So full but often right A pair of eyes, a closin' one, A chosen child of golden sun A marble dog that chases cars To farthest reaches of the beach and far beyond into the swimming sea of stars A cosmic fish they love to kiss They're giving birth to constellation No riffs and oh, no reservation. If they should fall you get a wish or dedication May I suggest you get the.. | Jason Mraz | ||
| b9a79c7 | I don't know what superpower William James enjoyed, but I can no more choose my thoughts than choose my name. | John Green | ||
| 2b2b9cb | He doesn't want to have sex unless he's in love, and yes, I know that virginity is a misogynistic and oppressive social construct,but I still want to lose it, and meanwhile I've got this boy hemming and hawing like we're in a Jane Austen novel. I wish boys didn't have all these feelings I have to manage like a fucking psychiatrist. | John Green | ||
| 2bad8a8 | The truth is cruel but right. | Hiromu Arakawa | ||
| 9547a11 | There is, in every man, an animal...imprisoned, like a galley slave, and there is a gate, and if we open the gate, the animal will rush out, like the slave finding his way to escape. | Georges Bataille | ||
| afadbd9 | L'image la plus simple de la vie organique unie a la rotation est la maree. Du mouvement de la mer, coit uniforme de la terre avec la lune, procede le coit polymorphe et organique de la terre et du soleil. Mais la premiere forme de l'amour solaire est un nuage qui s'eleve au-dessus de l'element liquide. Le nuage erotique devient parfois orage et reombe vers la terre sous forme de pluie pendant que la foudre defonce les couches de l'atmosphe.. | Georges Bataille | ||
| 90be912 | These moments of intoxication, when we defy everything, when, the anchor raised, we go merrily toward the abyss, with no more thought for the inevitable fall than for the limits given in the beginning, are the only ones when we are completely free of the ground (of laws) ... Nothing exists that doesn't have this senseless sense - common to flames, dreams, uncontrollable laughter - in those moments when consumption accelerates, beyond the de.. | Georges Bataille | ||
| a408613 | If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of humanity. | Georges Bataille | ||
| 58377fa | out of despair I decided to follow this horror through. I stared down at what I was already grasping in my hand, like an ape; I wrapped myself in the dust and took off my trousers. Interwoven joy and terror strangled me within. I strangled and I gasped from pleasure. The more those pictures terrified me, the more intense was my excitement at the sight of them. After days of accumulating alarms, tensions, suffocations, I was beyond withstand.. | Georges Bataille | ||
| e35df28 | the word silence is still a sound, to speak is in itself to imagine knowing; and to no longer know, it would be necessary to no longer speak | Georges Bataille | ||
| 7d6c8a1 | being aware that the sacred quality hidden in the experience of eroticism is something impossible for language to reach (this is also due to the impossibility of experiencing of re-experiencing anything through language), Bataille still expresses it in words. (Mishima on Bataille) | metaphysics mishima | Georges Bataille | |
| bfa4cb1 | Ot samo sebe si se razbira, che razvitieto na erotizma s ne e v'nshno za oblastta na , no t'kmo khristiianstvoto, protivopostaviaiki se na erotizma, e os'dilo povecheto religii. V niakak'v smis'l khristiianskata religiia e mozhe bi nai-nereligioznata. | erotism religion | Georges Bataille | |
| 557bfac | Tutku, onu hisseden icin bedenlerin arzusundan daha siddetli bir anlam tasiyabilir. Beraberinde mutluluk umutlarini getirmesine ragmen tutkunun kargasa ve rahatsizliga neden oldugunu hicbir zaman unutmamaliyiz. Mutlu tutku bile o kadar siddetli bir karisikliga neden olur ki mutluluk haz duyulmasini saglamadan once cok buyuk oldugu icin karsitina, yani aciya benzer. Tutkunun ozu, iki varligin sureksizligini mukemmel sureklilige donusturmekti.. | Georges Bataille | ||
| df2e308 | So much depends upon the transparent G-tube erupting from the gut of the blue-lipped boy. So much depends upon this observer of the universe"......."And you say you don't write poetry." | John Green | ||
| 6169fe0 | I am awful. I am heartless. I am scared that these things are actually true. | John Green | ||
| 89ce0b3 | We landed, in fact, parallel to a canal, like there were two runways: one for us and one for waterfowl. | John Green | ||
| 1082dfb | That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt... | John Green | ||
| f8c4fc3 | Getting pissed wouldn't fix it. Damn it. | John Green | ||
| b4ad906 | And imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present. | John Green | ||
| 5f94ae0 | They were angry, I thought. Horrified. These teenagers, with their hormones, making out beneath a video broadcasting the shattered voice of a former father. | John Green | ||
| d00d467 | My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed. | the-fault-in-our-start | John Green | |
| 7db5064 | The abbreviated exam week meant that Wednesday was the last day of school for us. And all day long, it was hard not to walk around, thinking about the lastness of it all. | John Green | ||
| a4c3750 | The marks humans leave are too ofter scars. | John Green | ||
| e26defc | And I agreed, but still, she owed us an explanation. If she was up there, down there, out there, somewhere, maybe she would laugh. | John Green | ||
| f9734d0 | My stomach sank. JP had come so close. His immigrant parents had sacrificed so much. | John Green | ||
| 86d97e0 | I lit up like a Christmas tree-Augustus Waters | sad | John Green | |
| 887619a | You're amazing, and I so want to be your boyfriend, because of what you just said, and also because that shirt makes me want to take you home and do unspeakable things while we watch live-action Sailor Moon videos | John Green | ||
| 0fd157f | You're not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house, and live your life. | John Green | ||
| 5317c7f | The pigs can't stop the fox; I'm too quick,' Takumi said to himself. "I can rhyme while I run; I'm that slick." | funny looking-for-alaska miles pudge takumi | John Green | |
| 69a67ea | It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. | labyrinth life suffering wrong | John Green | |
| b7d4e4e | And so that is the question I leave you with in this final: What is your cause for hope? | John Green | ||
| 4fe6cc6 | But of course there is always a hamartia and yours is that oh, my God, even though you HAD FREAKING CANCER you give money to a company in exchange for the chance to acquire YET MORE CANCER. | cigarettes fatal-flaw | John Green | |
| ffc966f | Me enamore de la forma en que te quedas dormido: poco a poco, y luego de una sola vez. | John Green | ||
| 140dbc1 | We are not as frail as the strings would make us believe. | positivity strength-through-adversity | John Green | |
| 20dc9cf | You all smoke to enjoy it, I smoke to die. | John Green | ||
| d79b5df | Pudge/Colonel: "I am sorry that I have not talked to you before. I am not staying for graduation. I leave for Japan tomorrow morning. For a long time, I was mad at you. The way you cut me out of everything hurt me, and so I kept what I knew to myself. But then even after I wasn't mad anymore, I still didn't say anything, and I don't even really know why. Pudge had that kiss, I guess. And I had this secret. You've mostly figured this.. | anniversary-death girlfriend letter love-alaska-young mother mother-s-death pudge-colonel secret takumi truth-and-lies | John Green |