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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 622dccc | yql 'n l Hy@ llnsn dwn 'ml | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 9d72510 | ezhednevno v obraze kontrabasa, samogo bol'shogo iz zhenopodobnykh instrumentov, -- eto v smysle ego formy, -- ia nasiluiu svoiu sobstvennuiu mat', i etot vechnyi simvolicheskii krovosmesitel'nyi polovoi akt okazyvaetsia, estestvenno, kazhdyi raz moral'noi katastrofoi, i eta moral'naia katastrofa prosto-taki napisana na litse u kazhdogo iz nas, kontrabasistov. Eto k psikhoanaliticheskoi storone instrumenta. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 648f5b8 | With one glance he had got himself trapped in the brown fundament of her eyes, he was in danger of sinking, as if into a soft, brown swamp, and he had to close his own eyes for a second to get out of it.. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| b91089c | hnk 'sy'l@ tHml nfyh Dmnh bbsT@ bmjrd 'n ytm TrHh, whnk rj ytDH `dm jdwh ltm bmjrd nTqh wlnZr fy lwqt nfsh fy `yny lmtlqy | Patrick Süskind | ||
| ab4e1b9 | Vlast, po-silna ot vlstta na parite, ili ot vlastta na terora, ili ot vlastta na sm'rtta: nepreodolimata vlast da vnushava obich. Samo edno ne mozheshe tazi vlast: da go dari s's sobstven miris. I makar chrez svoia parfium da se iaviavashe pred sveta kato Gospod, shchom kato sam ne mozhe da se pomirishe i zatova nikoga niama da uznae koi e v deistvitelnost, toi pliueshe na vlastta, na sveta, na samiia sebe si, na parfiuma si. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 736e79b | Era fuerte como una bacteria resistente, y frugal como la garrapata, que se inmoviliza en un arbol y vive de una minuscula gota de sangre que chupo anos atras. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 8e5ccd7 | When kings the sword of justice first lay down, They are no kings, though they possess the crown. Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things, The good of subjects is the end of kings. | good monarchs subjects nothing emptiness titles kings purpose justice | Daniel Defoe | |
| 310aa38 | hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon. | descriptive-writing love-of-home | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 4d3edf6 | Out beyond ideas | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 30503c4 | And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. | past life love wisedom mistakes | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 528eee8 | lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 1cf60af | If thou art indeed my father, then hast thou stained thy sword in the life-blood of thy son. And thous didst it of thine obstinacy. For I sought to turn thee unto love, and I implored of thee thy name, for I thought to behold in thee the tokens recounted of my mother. But I appealed unto thy heart in vain, and now is the time gone for meeting. | khaled runner kite | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 2273410 | I just think these people, everything they've been through, we should respect them... By 'we', I mean people like Timur and me. The lucky ones, the ones who weren't here when the place was getting bombed to hell. We're not like these people. We shouldn't pretend we are. The stories these people have to tell, we're not entitled to them... I'm rambling. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 2254efb | They would make new lives for themselves--peaceful, solitary lives--and there the weight of all that they'd endured would lift from them, and they would be deserving of all the happiness and simple prosperity they would find. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 6882482 | It blistered the eyes , beauty like hers . | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| ef95a51 | I was the lucky one because I was protected by my youth. Je pouvais oublier. I still had the luxury of forgetting. He did not. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| fe0522b | What began with exuberance and passion always ended with terse accusations and hateful words, with rage and weeping fits. | passion love | Khaled Hosseini | |
| c55259f | There is a way to be good again For you, a thousand times over Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| c42bf00 | The first quarter-century of your life was doubtless lived under the cloud of being too young for things, while the last quarter-century would normally be shadowed by the still darker cloud of being too old for them; and between those two clouds, what small and narrow sunlight illumines a human lifetime! | James Hilton | ||
| 54f3214 | I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sence enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us - like electricity and horses and steam. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 01dca14 | Whatever comes cannot alter one thing. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 8a0ac33 | At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done. Then they begin to hope it can be done. Then they see it can be done. Then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| bf2cd39 | One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 744b682 | Where recyling takes place only in response to political pressures and exhortations, it need not meet the test of being incrementally worth its incremental costs. Accordingly, studies of government-imposed recycling programs in the United States have shown that what they salvage is usually worth less than the cost of salvaging it. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 1bed1cc | It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with us. | Alcoholics Anonymous | ||
| a837436 | Among other things, neuroplasticity means that emotions such as happiness and compassion can be cultivated in much the same way that a person can learn through repetition to play golf and basketball or master a musical instrument, and that such practice changes the activity and physical aspects of specific brain areas. | happiness neuroplasticity | Andrew Weil | |
| ccbd23f | He seems to see good in every one. No one would take him for a clergyman. | E.M. Forster | ||
| b9f645e | Actual life is full of false clues and sign-posts that lead nowhere. With infinite effort we nerve ourselves for a crisis that never comes. The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. | E.M. Forster | ||
| e5b98b6 | You care for me a little bit, I do think," he admitted, "but I can't hang all my life on a little bit. You don't. You hang yours on Anne. You don't worry whether your relation with her is platonic or not, you only know it's big enough to hang a life on." | E.M. Forster | ||
| 04659c6 | For the dead, who seem to take away so much, really take with them nothing that is ours. | where-angels-fear-to-tread | E.M. Forster | |
| 6b9e4fc | Pity, if one can generalize, is at the bottom of woman. When men like us, it is for our better qualities, and however tender their liking, we dare not be unworthy of it, or they will quietly let us go. But unworthiness stimulates woman. It brings out her deeper nature, for good or for evil. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 4ab6ec8 | England has always been disinclined to accept human nature. | maurice | E.M. Forster | |
| 9398588 | He has the merit--if it is one--of saying exactly what he means. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 1d8149d | If there is a recurring theme in Garfield's diaries it's this: I'd rather be reading. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| e67788c | But truth be told, I'm not as dour-looking as I would like. I'm stuck with this round, sweetie-pie face, tiny heart-shaped lips, the daintiest dimples, and apple cheeks so rosy I appear in a perpetual blush. At five foot four, I barely squeak by average height. And then there's my voice: straight out of second grade. I come across so young and innocent and harmless that I have been carded for buying maple syrup. Tourists feel more safe appr.. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 5999e67 | If it isn't on YouTube, it might as well have never happened. | Gordon Korman | ||
| 930b754 | Kad naidu teska, mutna vremena i ucestaju sukobi i uzbune medu ljudima, otvori se odjednom Biblija na njenim najtamnijim stranicama i nas uzas ili nase nerazumevanje nadu drevne i poznate reci kao jedini izraz. Gledajuci vojnike i zandarme koji su do malopre bili i ubijali, video sam im u ocima, duboko ispod spoljnjeg besa i drskosti, jedva primetno kolebanje u kom je bilo i zivotinjskog straha i neke zelje da se ne bude na tom mestu ni u t.. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| f8f6d5b | Ne rusi sve mostove, mozda ces se vratiti. Nisi ptica ni leptir obalom sto leti, kad nema mostova uzalud je ceznuti, uzalud je shvatiti, uzalud je htjeti. Ne rusi sve mostove, mozda ces se vratiti. Ostavi bar jedan most izmedu srca i mene, | Ivo Andrić | ||
| 3617744 | But it's a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life." -Damien" | Alan Brennert | ||
| dd5bfa5 | As soon as the period of mourning for Dona Ester was over and the big house on the corner was finished, Esteban Trueba and Clara del Valle were married in a modest ceremony. Esteban gave his wife a set of diamond jewelry, which she thought beautiful. She packed it away in a shoe box and quickly forgot where she had put it. They spent their honeymoon in Italy and two days after they were on the boat. Esteban was as madly in love as an adoles.. | isabel allende | ||
| 8f2cdf5 | This is the kind of detail that is forbidden in literature; in a book, no one would dare combine a full moon with Frank Sinatra. The problem with fiction is that it must seem credible, while reality seldom is. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 052fdaa | I've been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go to a therapist, even though I always set a trap: during my meditation I invent stories to keep from being bored, and in therapy I invent stories to keep from boring the psychologist. | wit | Isabel Allende | |
| ac753f4 | lm 'kn '`rf b`d 'n lHzn l yzwl blkml 'bdan , w'nh ybq~ tHt ljld ; wmn dwnh mkn ly lywm 'n 'kwn nfsy , wlm stT`t lt`rf `l~ nfsy fy lmra@ | self | Isabel Allende | |
| 42a3f97 | n Hyty ttjsd Hyn 'rwyh wdhkrty tthbt blktb@; wm l 'SwGh fy klmt w'dwnh `l~ lwrq symHwh lzmn . | Isabel Allende |