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| 6d3064f | She was indeed a girl of exquisite beauty. She was one of those languid women made of dark honey, smooth and sweet and terribly sticky, who take control of a room with a syrupy gesture, a toss of the hair, a single slow whiplash of the eyes-and all the while remain as still as the center of a hurricane, apparently unaware of the force of gravity by which they irresistibly attract to themselves the yearnings and the souls of both men and wom.. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 44bdcda | And even knowing that to possess that scent he must pay the terrible price of losing it again, the very possession and the loss seemed to him more desirable than a prosaic renunciation of both. For he had renounced things all his life. But never once had he possessed and lost. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 27fbe7f | Walking soothes. There is a healing power in walking. The regular placement of one foot in front of the other while at the same time rowing rhythmically with the arms, the rising rate of respiration, the slight stimulation of the pulse, the actions required of eye and ear for determining direction and maintaining balance, the feeling of the passing air brushing against the skin -- all these are events that mass about the body and mind in a .. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 4bef2e2 | And finally - he was neither able nor willing to prevent it - the self-loathing dammed up inside him spilled over and gushed out, gushed out of glaring eyes that grew ever grimmer, angrier, beneath the rim of his cap, flooding the outside world as perfect, vulgar hate. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 535dedf | Siempre habia creido que era del mundo en general de lo que tenia que apartarse, pero ahora lo veia claro no se trataba del mundo, si no de los seres humanos. Al parecer, en el mundo, en el mundo sin hombres, la vida era soportable | patrick-süskind perfume suspense the-story-of-a-murderer | Patrick Süskind | |
| a718011 | ld~ l`rby bn syn wHdh njd qryn@ `l~ Tq@ ltHwr lHjry, Gyr 'nh bdwrh l ystTy` 'n yqwl ln mn 'yn tt't~ Tqth wl lmdh ttbd~ bTryq@ mHdd@, blnsb@ l~ lSWadaf. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 362a463 | Not hope that he would be rescued--that was gone. But hope in his knowledge. Hope in the fact that he could learn and survive and take care of himself. Tough hope, he thought that night. I am full of tough hope. | Gary Paulsen | ||
| cb9b6e8 | A slow nature such as Maurice's appears insensitive, for it needs time even to feel. | E.M. Forster | ||
| b32120a | A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 408acf2 | In a British accent, he tells me his name is Dr.Nawaz, and suddenly I want to be away from this man, because I don't think I can bear what he has come to tell me. He says the boy had cut himself deeply and had lost a great deal of blood and my mouth begins to mutter that prayer again: They had to transfuse several units of red cells- Twice, they had to revive him- namaz, zakat. They would have lost him if his heart hadn't been young an.. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| d4648a7 | I see the creative process as a necessarily thievish undertaking. Dig beneath a beautiful piece of writing..and you will find all manner of dishonor. Creating means vandalizing the lives of other people, turning them into unwilling and unwitting participants. You steal their desires, their dreams, pocket their flaws, their suffering. You take what does not belong to you. You do this knowingly. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| d40c78f | Only two weeks since he had left, and it was already happening. Time, blunting the edges of those sharp memories. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 2fef650 | Dr. Bashiri, if I ever want to put a curse in someone, I say, 'May God give you a restaurant. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| fb118ee | Make morning into a key and throw it into the well, go slowly , my lovely moon, go slowly. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 8afb847 | The impact had cut your upper lip in two, he had said, clean down the middle. Clean down the middle. Like a harelip. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 83add19 | He was a visionary or a fool I have found the line perilously thin myself | visionary | Khaled Hosseini | |
| be33760 | What a host of little incidents, all deep-buried in the past -- problems that had once been urgent, arguments that had once been keen, anecdotes that were funny only because one remembered the fun. Did any emotion really matter when the last trace of it had vanished from human memory; and if that were so, what a crowd of emotions clung to him as to their last home before annihilation? He must be kind to them, must treasure them in his mind .. | James Hilton | ||
| d1478fb | No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 2c4e8df | A mere enumeration of government activity is evidence -- often the sole evidence offered -- of "inadequate" nongovernment institutions, whose "inability" to cope with problems "obviously" required state intervention. Government is depicted as acting not in response to its own political incentives and constraints but because it is compelled to do so by concern for the public interest: it "cannot keep its hands off" when so "much is at stake,.. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 96df575 | The government is indeed an institution, but "the market" is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste." | Thomas Sowell | ||
| da4f75b | Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 636b9b8 | People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid. Much of the stupidity we see today is induced by our educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities. In a high-tech age that has seen the creation of artificial intelligence by computers, we are also seeing the creation of artificial stupidity by people who call themselves educators. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| a1ef6b8 | It is very difficult for me to come to terms with my spiritual illness because of my great pride, disguised by my material successes and my intellectual power. Intelligence is not incompatible with humility, provided I place humility first. To seek prestige and wealth is the ultimate goal for many in the modern world. To be fashionable and to seem better than I really am is a spiritual illness. To recognize and to admit my weaknesses is the.. | Alcoholics Anonymous | ||
| 4fa89d4 | My personal opinion is that the neutral position on the mood spectrum--what I called emotional sea level--is not happiness but rather contentment and the calm acceptance that is the goal of many kinds of spiritual practice. | happiness spiritual-practice | Andrew Weil | |
| 2207ec0 | You have not been yourself all day," said Henry, and rose from his seat with face unmoved. Margaret rushed at him and seized both his hands. She was transfigured. "Not any more of this!" she cried. "You shall see the connection if it kills you, Henry! You have had a mistress--I forgave you. My sister has a lover--you drive her from the house. Do you see the connection? Stupid, hypocritical, cruel--oh, contemptible!--a man who insults his wi.. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 03dacb2 | You are inclined to get muddled, if I may judge from last night. Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 113c41a | I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who's strong enough to boss me or whom I'm strong enough to boss. So I shan't ever marry, for there aren't such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say 'Jack Robinson. | relationships | E.M. Forster | |
| 7696824 | Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from which the previous civilization had hoped so much, had ended by defeating itself. What was the good of going to Peking when it was just like Shrewsbury? Why return to Shrewsbury when it would all be like Peking? Men seldom moved their bodies; all unrest was concentrated in the soul. | civilisation civilization future machine science-fiction soul travel unrest | E.M. Forster | |
| 15b596b | But this is something new!' said Mrs. Munt, who collected new ideas as a squirrel collects nuts, and was especially attracted by those that are portable. | E.M. Forster | ||
| bf3e8a3 | Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain. | education learning reading scholorship | E.M. Forster | |
| 3368e55 | Owen is the most Hitchcockian preschooler I ever met. He's three. He knows maybe ninety word and one of them is 'crypt'? | macabre | Sarah Vowell | |
| 6e74d44 | When one of a culture's guiding credos is that "all men are created equal," any person who, say, becomes an expert on, say, nuclear weapons or, say, ecology, i.e., anyone who distinguishes himself through mental excellence, is a nuisance." | Sarah Vowell | ||
| e5d9b03 | Don't talk to me about hatred if you haven't been married. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 33ee29e | You know your country has a checkered past when you find yourself sitting around pondering the humanitarian upside of sticking with the British Empire. | history humanitarianism | Sarah Vowell | |
| a2ba098 | But I have never had the privilege of unhappiness in Happy Valley. California is about the good life. So a bad life there seems so much worse than a bad life anywhere else. Quality is an obsession there--good food, good wine, good movies, music, weather, cars. Those sound like the right things to shoot for, but the never-ending quality quest is a lot of pressure when you're uncertain and disorganized and, not least, broker than broke. Some .. | humor quality | Sarah Vowell | |
| fc3d7a1 | Hamilton was bug-eyed. "Who those people?" Jonah held his head. "Man, I should have known it was a mistake to say I'd be leaving town soon! Why do fans have to be so literal?" "Are they going to let us go get the faxes?" Hamilton asked. Jonah stared at him. "You're kidding, right?" | Gordon Korman | ||
| c751488 | A bronze plaque read: GAIUS PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS Dan made a face. "Get a load of the guy with the funny name." "I think that's Pliny the younger, the famous Roman writer," Amy supplied. She bent down to read the English portion of the tablet. "Right. In A.D. 79, Pliny chronicled the destruction of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. It's one of the earliest eyewitness accounts of a major disaster." Dan yawned. "Doesn't this rem.. | Gordon Korman | ||
| adf2b30 | Amy, since when do you have a boyfriend? | Gordon Korman | ||
| 70020fa | Slime him, sis," Dan urged, "Make him a redcoat." | redcoats | Gordon Korman | |
| 91c73cd | Check it out." Jonah removed the bubble wrap and held up the picture for his three cousins. Dan took a step backward. The shock was almost as powerful as it had been the day before at the Uffizi. "It's perfect! It's every bit as disgusting as the real one!" Amy nodded. "And so fast. We only called you yesterday." Jonah shrugged. "Even the Janus take a short cut every now and then. You can do a lot with digitization these days. You break the.. | Gordon Korman | ||
| 6dac243 | Kod ljudi koji nam postanu bliski mi sve te pojedinosti prvog dodira sa njima obicno zaboravljamo; izgleda nam kao da smo ih vazda znali i kao da su oduvek sa nama bili. Od svega toga u secanju iskrsne ponekad samo neka nepovezana slika. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| 8e945bf | lys hdh 'wn lmwt ,, bl 'wn brhn lmr `l~ qymth. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| 29f2351 | era apenas la suma de dos soledades y de muchas ausencias. | Isabel Allende | ||
| f88df0a | Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur. | Isabel Allende |