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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8383eca | Up close the city constitutes an oppressive series of staircases, but from a distance it inspires fantasies of wealth and power so profound that even our communists are temporarily rendered speechless. | David Sedaris | ||
| 0d9b1bd | Yes,' he said. 'That's it. They'd kick him and beat him with a switch. Then if the youngster was really bad, they'd put him in a sack and take him back to Spain.' 'Saint Nicholas would kick you?' 'Well, not anymore,' Oscar said. 'Now he just pretends to kick you.' | David Sedaris | ||
| 8b270f6 | Don't tell me I don't know how to hate,' I wanted to say. Then I stopped and asked myself, 'Do you really want that to be your message? Think you can out-hate me, asshole? I was fucking hating people before you were even born! | David Sedaris | ||
| 83c96e7 | In France the most often used word is "connerie," which means "bullshit," and in America it's hands-down "awesome," which has replaced "incredible," "good," and even "just OK." Pretty much everything that isn't terrible is awesome in America now." -- | language | David Sedaris | |
| 00e726c | After I die, and you read something bad about yourself in my diary, do yourself a favor and keep reading," I often say to Hugh. "I promise that on the next page you'll find something flattering. Or maybe the page after that." | David Sedaris | ||
| 4282968 | Increasingly at Southern airports, instead of a "good-bye" or "thank-you," cashiers are apt to say, "Have a blessed day." This can make you feel like you've been sprayed against your will with God cologne. "Get it off me!" I always want to scream. "Quick, before I start wearing ties with short-sleeved shirts!" | David Sedaris | ||
| 59469be | Frustrated with drawing, I switched to the printmaking department, where I overturned great buckets of ink. After trying my hand at sculpture, I attempted pottery. During class critiques the teacher would lift my latest project from the table and I'd watch her arm muscles strain and tighten against the weight. With their thick, clumsy bases, my mugs weighed in at close to five pounds each. The color was muddy and the lips rough and uninviti.. | David Sedaris | ||
| 18bf676 | But instead I am applying for a job as an elf. Even worse than applying is the very real possibility that I will not be hired, that I couldn't even find work as an elf. That's when you know you're a failure. | David Sedaris | ||
| 73a061e | Where's your sketch pad?" I asked. ... "I gave that up," Kay said. "I wasn't very good, so I changed my major." "To what?" "To pre-med, then psychology, then English lit, then history." "I like a woman who knows what she wants." Kay smiled. "So do I, but I don't know any." | James Ellroy | ||
| caa0787 | Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I have attained it. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 2c6ed56 | kl wHd mn nsn , bshr, 'y 'nh mjrd mHwl@, mjrd shy' fy mntSf lTryq. w `ly lnsn 'n ykwn fy mntSf lTryq lmw'dy ly lkml w 'n ys`y lblwG lmrkz l lHf@. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 0a4c94d | People like best what is hard for them to obtain. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 36c3d2b | Ich werde stehen und warten. Ich werde mude werden. Ich werde nicht einschlafen. Ich werde sterben. | existence sleep waiting | Hermann Hesse | |
| ad8ad29 | nhm y`rfwn km Grman mn lbrwd tHtj lqtl nsn lknhm l yGrfwn kyf tSly l~ llh, l y`rfwn Ht~ kyf tkwn s`ydan w lw lmd@ s`h mn lrD | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 4a5f5f1 | I have no desire to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let the old shramanas satisfy themselves with such skills." | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 43ebef2 | Light the Christmas candles for your children! Let them sing carols! But don't delude yourselves, don't content yourselves year after year with the shabby, pathetic, sentimental feeling you have when you celebrate your holidays! Demand more of yourselves! Love and joy and the mysterious thing we call "happiness" are not over here or over there, they are only "within yourselves." | Hermann Hesse | ||
| ae41af6 | He read the veinings of a leaf, the pattern on a mushroom cap, and divined mysteries, relations, futures, possibilities: the magic of symbols, the foreshadowing of numbers and writing, the reduction of infinitudes and multiplicities to simplicity, to system, to concept. For all these ways of comprehending the world through the mind no doubt lay within him, nameless, unnamed, but not inconceivable, not beyond the bounds of presentiment, stil.. | unity | Hermann Hesse | |
| 5617775 | You're quite right there," he said. "I have practiced abstinence myself for years, and had my time of fasting, too, but now I find myself once more beneath the sign of Aquarius, a dark and humid constellation." | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 8b896bc | I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| badc296 | When the world is at peace, when all things are tranquil and all men obey their superiors in all their courses, then music can be perfected. When desires and passions do not turn into wrongful paths, music can be perfected. Perfect music has its cause. It arises from equilibrium. Equilibrium arises from righteousness, and righteousness arises from the meaning of the cosmos. Therefore one can speak about music only with a man who has perceiv.. | oneness | Hermann Hesse | |
| 985d7fe | I thought of nothing but her. I expected everything from her. I was ready to lay everything at her feet. I was not in the least in love with her. Yet I had only to imagine that she might fail to keep the appointment, or forget it, to see where I stood. Then the world would be a desert once more, one day as dreary and worthless as the last, and the deathly stillness and wretchedness would surround me once more on all sides with no way out fr.. | fixation infatuation love | Hermann Hesse | |
| 5bada04 | The world was beautiful when looked at in this way--without any seeking, so simple, so childlike. | children observation simplicity world | Hermann Hesse | |
| 7e07208 | lm ywjd lHb lyj`ln s`d, bl 'n '`tqd 'n lHb wjd lybyn ln md~ qwtn `l~ lm`n@ wlHtml | pain strength | Hermann Hesse | |
| 1ebc5e4 | But every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again. That is why every man's story is important, eternal, sacred; that is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous, and worthy of every consideration. In each individual, the spirit has become fle.. | journey-of-life self-awareness | Hermann Hesse | |
| b24ed41 | He let himself be led into the night, into the forest, into the blind secret wordless, thoughtless country. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 0c134b8 | All being, it seemed, was built on opposites, on division. Man or woman, vagabond or citizen, lover or thinker -- no breath could both be in and out, none could be man and wife, free and yet orderly, knowing the urge of life and the joy of intellect. Always the one paid for the other, though each was equally precious and essential. | intellect yin-and-yang | Hermann Hesse | |
| a71d09b | Here, too, I found neither home nor company, nothing but a seat from which to view a stage where strange people played strange parts. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 5095cac | The Wolf trots to and fro, The world lies deep in snow, The raven from the birch tree flies, But nowhere a hare, nowhere a roe, The roe -she is so dear, so sweet - If such a thing I might surprise In my embrace, my teeth would meet, What else is there beneath the skies? The lovely creature I would so treasure, And feast myself deep on her tender thigh, I would drink of her red blood full measure, Then howl till the night went by. Even a har.. | steppenwolf | Hermann Hesse | |
| 090a57a | It was the first rent in the holy image of my father, it was the first fissure in the columns that had upheld my childhood, which every individual must destroy before he can become himself. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 813ba3f | How I used to love the dark, sad evenings of late autumn and winter, how eagerly I imbibed their moods of loneliness and melancholy when wrapped in my cloak I strode for half the night through rain and storm, through the leafless winter landscape, lonely enough then too, but full of deep joy, and full of poetry which later I wrote down by candlelight sitting on the edge of my bed! | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 99aa1e6 | I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them. | sexism women | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 550dfb9 | They were without shame and without desire, like the angels. But it is not human to be without shame and without desire. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| f0726cd | It is hard to swear when sex is not dirty and blasphemy does not exist. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| be2ea96 | Yet we were rescued by that fancy, and saved by a myth. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 76fc6f5 | Maybe when you meet the people you are supposed to meet you know it, without knowing it. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 437f1e5 | She thought about how it was to have been a woman in the prime of life, with children and a man, and then to lose all that, becoming old and a widow, powerless. But even so she did not feel she understood his shame, his agony of humiliation. Perhaps only a man could feel so. A woman got used to shame. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 0cc0939 | In Enlad," said Arren after a while, "we have a story about the boy whose schoolmaster was a stone:' "Aye?... What did he learn?" "Not to ask questions." | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| d0fdf25 | There are none of you, good doctors, could cope with my family anyway. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 20337a5 | She couldn't bring herself to care, because those moment she spent brawling were the few moments she felt like herself again. | celaena-sardothien sam-cortland sarah-j-maas sj-maas the-assasin-and-the-healer the-assassin-s-blade yrene yrene-towers | Sarah J. Maas | |
| fb3bf3a | It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success. | excuses humility | John C. Maxwell | |
| 963f6f0 | So truly perfectly the skies by merciful love whispered were, | E.E. Cummings | ||
| 99474ed | god's terrible face brighter than a spoon collects the image of one fatal word; so that my life(which liked the sun and the moon) resembles something that has not occurred: i am a birdcage without any bird a collar looking for a dog a kiss without lips;a prayer lacking any knees but something beats within my shirt to prove he is undead who living noone is. I have never loved you dear as now i love. | E.E. Cummings | ||
| 732835e | Spring is like a perhaps hand Spring is like a perhaps hand (which comes carefully out of Nowhere)arranging a window,into which people look(while people stare arranging and changing placing carefully there a strange thing and a known thing here)and changing everything carefully spring is like a perhaps Hand in a window (carefully to and fro moving New and Old things,while people stare carefully moving a perhaps fraction of flow.. | E. E. Cummings | ||
| 3e4aa25 | for every mile the feet go the heart goes nine | poetry travel | E.E. Cummings |