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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ff96b5e | Interesting." Raistlin coughed the word. Tanis glanced at him sharply. "What is interesting?" "I've never heard you lie before, Half-Elf," Raistlin said softly. " I find it...quite...fascinating." | Margaret Weis | ||
| f543a91 | Three old women were bending in the fields. What use is it to question us? they said. Well it shortly became clear that they knew everything there is to know about the snowy fields and the blue green shoots and the plant called "audacity", which poets mistake for violets. I began to copy out everything that was said. ... I will do anything to escape boredom. It is the task of a lifetime. You can never know enough, never work enough, never u.. | Anne Carson | ||
| bc52d86 | He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew. | psychology | Anne Carson | |
| 042feb2 | in that blurred state between awake and asleep when too many intake valves are open in the soul. Like the terrestial crust of the earth which is proportionately 10 times thinner than an eggshell, the skin of the soul is a miracle of mutual pressures. Millions of kilograms of force pounding up from earth's core on the inside to meet the cold air of the world and stop as we do, just in time. | Anne Carson | ||
| a17edda | I am talking about evil. It blooms. It eats. It grins. | Anne Carson | ||
| 68f7df9 | Father is close, Mother is close, but neither is as close as Chairman Mao. | Jung Chang | ||
| 6494360 | Since I am wise, some people envy me, some think I'm idle, some the opposite, and some feel threatened. Yet I'm not all that wise. | Euripides | ||
| 14d7a36 | Old loves are dropped when new ones come | play tutor | Euripides | |
| c626d79 | Gods often contradict our fondest expectations. What we anticipate does not come to pass. What we don't expect some god finds a way to make it happen. So with this story | Euripides | ||
| c0f243b | Tragedy is born of myth, not morality. Prometheus and Icarus are tragic heroes. Yet none of the myths in which they appear has anything to do with moral dilemmas. Nor have the greatest Greek tragedies. If Euripides is the most tragic of the Greek playwrights, it is not because he deals with moral conflicts but because he understood that reason cannot be the guide of life. | greek-mythology morality socrates the-death-of-tragedy tragedy | John Gray | |
| 06f5ff5 | That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time. | poetry | Euripides | |
| 618363b | The Old Days, the Lost Days -- in the half-closed eyes of memory (and in fact) they never marched across a calendar; they huddled round a burning log, leaned on a certain table, or listened to those certain songs. | memories past reminiscence | Beryl Markham | |
| 96b9ab0 | La ausencia era eso. Un lugar que uno conoce y recuerda de memoria, como si fuera una foto, donde uno falta. | Ricardo Piglia | ||
| ba64c20 | Nunca la conocere del todo", penso, como en una repentina y dolorosa revelacion. Estaba ahi, al alcance de su mano y de su boca. En cierto modo estaba sin defensa !pero que lejana, que inaccesible que estaba! Intuia que grandes abismos la separaban (no solamente el abismo del sueno sino otros) y que para llegar hasta el centro de ella habria que marchar durante jornadas temibles, al borde de vol canes en erupcion, entre llamaradas y tiniebl.. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 8ddb725 | I am seeing that woman for the first and last time. I will never in my lifetime see her again.' My thoughts floated aimlessly, like a cork down an uncharted river. For a moment they bobbed around the woman beneath the thatch. What did she matter to me? But I could not rid myself of the thought that, for an instant, she was a part of my life that would never be repeated; from my point of view it was as if she were already dead: a brief delay.. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| aab139b | Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us. | Daniel Pinchbeck | ||
| 068e1dd | The alchemist saw the union of opposites under the symbol of the tree, and it is therefore not surprising that the unconscious of present-day man, who no longer feels at home in his world and can base his existence neither on the past that is no more nor on the future that is yet to be, should hark back to the symbol of the cosmic tree rooted in this world and growing up to heaven - the tree that is also man. In the history of symbols this .. | existence history symbology unconscious | C.G. Jung | |
| 1a56de3 | Suz, carrying Savich's plate, the scrambled eggs steaming, stopped to stare after Rachael. 'Isn't this par for the course--a sexy guy with two girls--I'll just bet the little readhead here threatened to whomp the blonde with that cute braid, right?' 'You're very observant, Suz,' Savich said. Sherlock rolled her eyes. | Catherine Coulter | ||
| 348cd27 | Nietzsche was right. I won't take the time to tell you who Nietzsche was, but he was right. The world belongs to the strong - to the strong who are noble as well and who do not wallow in the swine-trough of trade and exchange. The world belongs to the true nobleman, to the great blond beasts, to the noncompromisers, to the 'yes-sayers. | Jack London | ||
| 3176def | In the midst of her tears came the thought, "When people are in danger, they ask God to save them;" and, slipping down upon her knees, she said her prayer as she had never said it before, for when human help seems gone we turn to Him as naturally as lost children cry to their father, and feel sure that he will hear and answer them." | compassion god hope | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 09e10e9 | I like the plain, old-fashioned churches, built for use, not show, where people met for hearty praying and preaching, and where everybody made their own music instead of listening to opera singers, as we do now. I don't care if the old churches were bare and cold, and the seats hard, there was real piety in them, and the sincerity of it was felt in the lives of the people. I don't want a religion that I put away with my Sunday clothes, and .. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 80de6a8 | The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up in the easy chair, devoured poetry, romance, history, travels, and pictures like a regular bookworm. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 769250f | I think I shall write books, and get rich and famous, that would suit me, so that is my favorite dream. | dreams | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 36ace92 | It's bad enough to love someone who don't love you, but to have them told of it is perfectly awful. It makes me wild just to think of it. Ah, Fan, I'm getting so ill tempered and envious and wicked, I don't know what will happen to me. - Polly | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| ceb45e3 | Women work a good many miracles... | louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| fecdd1d | Love will make you show your heart someday... | love love-quotes | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 6b2e11f | wisely mingled poetry and prose. | louisa-may-alcott poetry prose | Louisa May Alcott | |
| b2d1756 | It is necessary to do right; it is not necessary to be happy. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| a128d1d | I don't like to doze by the fire. I like adventures, and I'm going to find some. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 497a85e | Many wise and true sermons are preached us everyday by unconscious ministers in street, school, office, or home; even a fair table may become a pulpit, if it can offer the good and helpful words which are never out of season. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| f57c618 | During the fifteen minutes that followed, the proud and sensitive girl suffered a shame and pain which she never forgot. To others it might seem a ludicrous or trivial affair, but to her it was a hard experience, for during the twelve years of her life she had been governed by love alone | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| b4fc027 | No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles... | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| f0f984b | Jo to her mother] I knew there was mischief brewing. I felt it and now it's worse than I imagined. I just wish I could marry Meg myself, and keep her safe in the family. | humor jo marriage siblings | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 3ef9e0a | it is so much better to work for others than for one's self alone. | louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 26a0d8f | I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully... | louisa-may-alcott men | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 481cb83 | The sun is not ridiculous, quite the contrary. On everything I like, on the rust of the construction girders, on the rotten boards of the fence, a miserly, uncertain light falls, like the look you give, after a sleepless night, on decisions made with enthusiasm the day before, on pages you have written in one spurt without crossing out a word. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 8d6a2e5 | The Nausea has stayed down there, in the yellow light. I am happy: this cold is so pure, this night so pure: am I myself not a wave of icy air? With neither blood, nor lymph, nor flesh. Flowing down this long canal towards the pallor down there. To be nothing but coldness. | jean-paul nausea sartre | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| aeff68b | INEZ: What's the matter? ESTELLE: I feel so queer. Don't you ever get taken that way? When I can't see myself I begin to wonder if I really and truly exist. I pat myself just to make sure, but it doesn't help much. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 0bc5226 | Human feeling. That's beyond my range. I'm rotten to the core | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| dcfc4d8 | Il n'y a de realite que dans l'action... [L'etre humain] n'existe que dans la mesure ou il se realise, il n'est donc rien d'autre que sa vie | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 8208c2f | Oppressed with countless little daily cares, he had waited... For an act. A free, considered act; that should pledge his whole life, and stand at the beginning of a new existence. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 0c9d3b6 | It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they do not hide under the table, they eat only one sweet at a time, but later on, they make Society pay dearly for it! | good-behaviour goodness manners payback revenge revolution | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| 6f3a285 | I am here merely as a messenger. Tashi sends her love and returns your horse. | Julia Golding | ||
| 452a3ed | you've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap. there's an animal kind of trick. a human would remain in the trap endure the pain feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind. | Frank Herbert |