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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| dc3000f | The most frightening thing in the world is our own self. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 2169661 | Most people believe not so much in truth as in things they wish were the truth. Their eyes may be wide open, but they don't see a thing. Tricking them is as easy as twisting a baby's arm. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 6411217 | But even though I was with my father again, I never felt really secure deep down. I don't know how to put it exactly, but things were never really settled inside me. I always had this feeling like, I don't know, like somebody was putting something over on me, like my real father had disappeared forever and, to fill the gap, some other guy was sent to me in his shape. | father-and-son | Haruki Murakami | |
| 39fbc26 | It's really difficult to talk about dead people, but it's even harder to talk about dead young women. It's because from the time they die, they'll be young forever. On the other hand, for us, the survivors, every year, every month, every day, we get older. Sometimes, I feel like I can feel myself aging from one hour to the next. It's a terrible thing, but that's reality. | death girls | Haruki Murakami | |
| d3ea700 | dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 2beba1b | Companionate love is neurologically different from passionate love. Passionate love always spikes early, then fades away, while companionate love is less intense but grows over time. And, whereas passionate love lights up the brain's pleasure centers, companionate love is associated with the regions having to do with long-term bonding and relationships. Anthropologist Helen Fisher, the author of Anatomy of Love and one of the most cited sch.. | Aziz Ansari | ||
| 89eb91b | Even if you bar my way, even if you stare me in the face, I'll pass you by on the chasm's edge, finer than a hair. | Wisława Szymborska | ||
| 445007f | India and its peoples; not the British India of cantonments and Clubs, or the artificial world of hill stations and horse shows, but that other India: that mixture of glamour and tawdriness, viciousness and nobility. A land full of gods and gold and famine. Ugly as a rotting corpse and beautiful beyond belief ... | M.M. Kaye | ||
| 7b2629f | Tu dormis, tu perdis ... You snooze, you lose. | Paul Beatty | ||
| 8930476 | Do I frighten ye, Sassenach?" - "No. It's only... the first time... I didn't think it would be forever. I meant to go, then." - "And ye did go, and came again. You're here, there's no more that matters, than that." I raised myself slightly to look at him. His eyes were closed, slanted and catlike, his lashes that striking color I remembered so well because I had seen it so often. "What did you think, the first time we lay together?" I a.. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 4dd1994 | The basic recurring theme in Hindu mythology is the creation of the world by the self-sacrifice of God--"sacrifice" in the original sense of "making sacred"--whereby God becomes the world which, in the end, becomes again God. This creative activity of the Divine is called lila, the play of God, and the world is seen as the stage of the divine play. Like most of Hindu mythology, the myth of lila has a strong magical flavour. Brahman is the g.. | hinduism life religion | Fritjof Capra | |
| ee1a7b7 | What a strange fellowship this is, the God seekers in every land, lifting their voices in the most disparate ways imaginable to the God of all life. How does it sound from above? Like bedlam, or do the strains blend in strange ethereal harmony? Does one faith carry the lead or do the parts share in counterpoint and antiphony where not in full throated chorus? We cannot know. All we can do is to listen carefully and with full attention to ea.. | Huston Smith | ||
| f698d5a | Impossibility is a log thrown on the fires of love. | Laurie R. King | ||
| f824aae | Stop it!' He relented, so far as he could, stepping forward to take my head into his hands. 'Russell, once, only once, I was taken and suffered for it. Please, my dear wife, believe me, this is not the same situation...'...I turned back to Holmes and hissed, 'If you're wrong, I shall be extremely angry with you.' Then O kissed him hard on the lips, more threat than affection, and let him step back into his cell...'However, Russ? I think tha.. | Laurie R. King | ||
| d487713 | I took to the...Library as to a lover... | Laurie R. King | ||
| 28c142c | Ma'alesh; no matter; never mind; what can you do but accept things as they are? Ma'alesh, your pot overturned in the fire; ma'alesh, your prize mare died; ma'alesh, you lost all your possessions and half your family. The word was the everyday essence of Islam - which itself, after all, means "submission." | Laurie R. King | ||
| 87c909f | the first spring in five free from the rumour of guns across the Channel, a spring anxious to make up for the cold winter, life bursting out after four years of death. All of England raised her face to the sun. . . | Laurie R. King | ||
| 2976068 | The crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes. | morality sedgwick | Larry McMurtry | |
| 671cade | I don't know why you would even want to stay with me," I said. T.R. looked stunned for a second and then whipped her elbow into my side as hard as she could--months later it was determined that the jab cracked a rib. Oh, get fucked!" she said, jumping up. "No wonder you don't have no girlfriend if you don't have no more feelings than to say a horrible thing like that. All I want to do is love you. Ain't you even gonna let me?" | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 7fd7863 | He sat where he was, on Mouse, in the grip of terrible indecision. He almost wished something would happen--a sudden attack of Mexicans or something. He might be killed, but at least he wouldn't have to make a choice between disobeying Mr. Gus and disobeying Lorena. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 03e772e | Virtually all his life he had been in the position of leading groups of men, yet the truth was he had never liked groups. Men he admired for their abilities in action almost always brought themselves down in his estimation if he had to sit around and listen to them talk--or watch them drink or play cards or run off after women. Listening to men talk usually made him feel more alone than if he were a mile away by himself under a tree. He had.. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 9f04b69 | Incompetents invariably made trouble for people other than themselves. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 8567afd | Don't you sometimes feel bewildered when you think of the millions of things that put life together?' ... 'I;m not bewildered. I'm filled with the deepest awe and wonder. The miracle is that in its complexity it all works. | life science world | Julie Andrews Edwards | |
| 661d852 | I will follow him to hell, and that is saying not a little, as I believe him entirely capable of the descent. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 0dbef3a | for, however all other feelings may be withered in a woman's nature, there is always one bright smiling spot in the maternal breast, and that is where a dearly-beloved child is concerned. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 9cb2a7a | Gli uomini veramente generosi sono sempre pronti a divenire compassionevoli allorche la disgrazia del nemico supera i limiti del loro odio. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 6b53735 | n lrdwd lt~ yntZrh lnsn bfrG lSbr tSl dy'man f~ Gybh. | Alexandre Dumas-fils | ||
| 5765b46 | that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me | englishmen | Alexandre Dumas | |
| f90b852 | Kitty: I thought your ladyship was ill. I wanted to help you. Lady deWinter: I ill? Do you take me for a weak woman? When I am insulted I do not feel ill - I avenge myself. Do you hear? | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| af54078 | and I will say to you, rude as it may seem, `My brother, you sacrifice greatly to pride; you may be above others, but above you there is God. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 418f894 | There are some catastrophes that a poor writer's pen cannot describe and which he is obliged to leave to the imagination of his readers with a bald statement of the facts. | writer | Alexandre Dumas | |
| c85de6b | But my real treasure is not that, my dear friend, which awaits me beneath the sombre rocks of Monte Cristo, it is your presence...it is the rays of intelligence you have elicited from my brain, the languages you have implanted in my memory, and which have taken root there with all their philological ramifications. These different sciences that you have made so easy to me by the depth of the knowledge you possess of them, and the clearness o.. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| dcef9d1 | What fragile and unknown threads the destinies of nations and the lives of men are suspended. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 66dca28 | Celui-la seul qui a eprouve l'extreme infortune est apte a ressentir l'extreme felicite. Il faut avoir voulu mourir pour savoir combien el est bon de vivre. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 152ca66 | Pain anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed. We will not pretend to say that Heaven always apportions to a man's capability of endurance the anguish with which he afflicts him...Suffering is in proportion to the strength which has been accorded in other words the weak suffer more where the trial is the same than the strong. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 3f249f9 | A man is held to be criminal,sometimes, by the great ones of the earth,not because he has committed a crime himself but because he knows of one which has been committed. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 90469e7 | I know the world is a drawing-room, from which we must retire politely and honestly; that is, with a bow, and our debts of honor paid. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| ec78100 | choose less and feel better. | Barry Schwartz | ||
| b7f4e7a | There are riches enough for all of us, no matter our abilities or circumstances. It is only the inspiration that requires summoning. | Robert D. Kaplan | ||
| e7111e7 | What does a man live for but to have a girl, use his mind, practice his trade, drink a drink, read a book, and watch the martins wing it for the Amazon and the three-fingered sassafras turn red in October? Art Immelmann is right. Man is not made for suffering, night sweats, and morning terrors. | Walker Percy | ||
| 7d07230 | Imagine that you are Johnny Carson and find yourself caught in an intolerable one-on-one conversation at a cocktail party from which there is no escape. Which of the two following events would you prefer to take place: (1) That the other person become more and more witty and charming, the music more beautiful, the scene transformed to a villa at Capri on the loveliest night of the year, while you find yourself more and more at a loss; or (2.. | Walker Percy | ||
| c513991 | The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives: the time one climbed the Parthenon at sunrise, the summer night one met a lonely girl in Central Park and achieved with her a sweet and natural relationship, as they say in books. I too once met a girl in Central Park, but it is not much to remember. What I remember is the time John Wayne killed three men with .. | Walker Percy | ||
| 446985f | Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and the emptiness which is inside him will expand until it evacuates the entire neighborhood. But if he sees a movie which shows his very neighborhood, it becomes possible for him to live, for a time at least, as a person who is Somewhere and not Anywhere. | movie neighborhood | Walker Percy | |
| 96bca3f | Fumbling in the dark, Josie reached underneath the frame of her bed for the plastic bag she'd stashed-her supply of sleeping pills. She was no better than any of the other stupid people in this world who thought if they pretended hard enough, they could make it so. She'd thought that death could be an answer, because she was too immature to realize it was the biggest question of all. Yesterday, she hadn't known what patterns blood could mak.. | Jodi Picoult |