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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ac83d8d | We are so afraid of the idea of having to die, said the doctor's wife, that we always try to find excuses, for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn | José Saramago | ||
| 64547d8 | Al contrario de lo que se cree, sentido y significado nunca han sido lo mismo, el significado se queda aqui, es directo, literal, explicito, cerrado en si mismo, univoco, podriamos decir, mientras que le sentido no es capaz de permanecer quieto, hierve de segundos sentidos, terceros y cuartos, de direcciones radicales que se van dividiendo y subdividiendo en ramas y ramajes hasta que se pierdende vista, el sentido de cada palabra se parece .. | José Saramago | ||
| a4cf219 | nao falou Blimunda, nao lhe falou Baltasar, apenas de olharam, olharem-se era a casa de ambos. | José Saramago | ||
| 460c823 | Que historia e essa, perguntou o comandante, A historia de uma vaca, As vacas tem historia, tornou o comandante a perguntar, sorrindo, Esta, sim, foram doze dias e doze noites nums montes da galiza, com frio, e chuva, e gelo, e lama, e pedras como navalhas, e mato como unhas, e breves intervalos de descanco, e mais combates e investidas, e uivos, e mugidos, a historia de uma vaca que se perdeu nos campos com a sua cria de leite, e se viu ro.. | José Saramago | ||
| 5fc6880 | n m nsmyh `m~ hw bbsT@ shy' myGTy mZhr wkynwn@ l'shy , ytrkh slym@ khlf Hjb 'swd | José Saramago | ||
| 484e867 | there have always been those who have filled their bellies because they had no sense of shame, | José Saramago | ||
| d8aa6f9 | Os bons e os maus resultados dos nossos ditos e obras vao-se distribuindo, supoe-se que de uma forma bastante uniforme e equilibrada, por todos os dias do futuro, incluindo aqueles infindaveis, em que ja ca nao estaremos para poder comprova-lo, para congratular-nos ou pedir perdao, alias, ha que diga que isso e que e a imortalidade. | José Saramago | ||
| 73a64b5 | yHdth Glb 'n nkwn ny'myn wtkhtrq 'Swt khrjy@ Hjb llsh`wr ldhy nkwn m zln mGlfyn dkhlh | José Saramago | ||
| a7c7171 | Time and time again one has seen how stories get exaggerated in the telling. | José Saramago | ||
| 197580f | Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king, | José Saramago | ||
| 82509b0 | ndm nkwn fy mHn@ kbyr@ wqd 'Sbn bwb l'lm wlkrb `ndy'dhin ySbH ljnb lHywny fy Tby`tn 'kthr wDwH. | José Saramago | ||
| 4544ea7 | There is nothing as sad, nothing as unutterably sad, as an old man crying. | José Saramago | ||
| 4355dd4 | fnh dh kn SHyH n lfrS@ l tSn` llS dy'm,flSHyH 'yD 'nh tshm fy Sn`h l~ Hd b`yd. | José Saramago | ||
| 2912b5d | Se nao sais de ti, nao chegas a saber quem es. | José Saramago | ||
| caa3252 | l '`rf kyf ysh`r 'Tfl lywm blwqt, lkn fy hdhh l'zmn@ lsHyq@, `ndm kn 'Tflan, kn ybdw ln lwqt mSnw`an mn nw` khS mn ls`t, klh bTyy'@ tzHf, lnhy@ lh. kn `lyn 'n nqDy `d@ snwt lnbd' ndrk, bl wsyT, 'n kl s`@ ttkwn fqT mn styn dqyq@, wb`d dhlk, tyqn mn 'n kl dqyq@ lbd w'n tnthy b`d styn thny@. | José Saramago | ||
| a1b1449 | The devil doesn't make plans, anyway, if men were good, he wouldn't even exist. | José Saramago | ||
| 22b4d97 | Hoje sabemos que dia e o nosso, amanha quem o dira, Emprestam-te uma espingarda, mas nunca te disseram que a apontasses ao latifundio, Toda a tua instrucao de mira e fogo esta virada contra o teu lado, e para o teu proprio e enganado coracao que olha o buraco do cano da tua arma, nao percebes nada do que fazes e um dia dao-te voz de atirar, e matas-te | José Saramago | ||
| 85b4726 | Don't lose yourself, don't let yourself be lost, he said, and these were unexpected, enigmatic words that did not seem to fit the occasion. | José Saramago | ||
| 2dad1fe | He imagined that he was looking for her and couldn't find her anywhere, that the two of them were lost on a vast ship, sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they're lying next to each other, brings them together and they can barely see one another, the woman is sleeping only a few yards away from him and he cannot reach her, yet it's so very easy to go from por.. | reach sea ship sleep | José Saramago | |
| cdd6e74 | Ter que pagar pelos proprios sonhos deve ser o pior dos desesperos | José Saramago | ||
| dd651d2 | Cain considers life and can find no explanation for it, there is that woman, who although clearly sick with desire is enjoying postponing the moment of surrender, which is not at all the right word, because lilith, when she does finally open her legs to allow herself to be penetrated, will not be surrendering, but trying to devour the man to whom she said, Enter. | José Saramago | ||
| b3d9427 | lsfyn@ lmtwqf@ l tsfr , fmhm ykn m syHdth fy lGd lbd mn l`ml lywm , wmn yzr` shjr@ l y`rf 'yD dh m kn synthy mshnwq `lyh . | José Saramago | ||
| 1737fb4 | Probablemente, solo en un mundo de ciegos seran las cosas lo que realmente son, | José Saramago | ||
| c02747c | The Earth," he said, "is a large and very complex lifeboat. We still do not know what can or can't be done with a proper distribution of resources and it is notorious that to this very day we have not really made an effort to distribute them. In many places on Earth, food is wasted daily, and it is that knowledge that drives hungry men mad." | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 7026db8 | We must not be taken in by the myth of youth, the unending propaganda to the effect that young men are younger than old men; that they are better looking; that they are slimmer, stronger and more athletic; that they can hold a girl in more romantic fashion and speak more sweetly. | isaac-asimov the-sensuous-dirty-old-man | Isaac Asimov | |
| 6292f16 | An unpleasant nest of nasty, materialistic and aggressive people, careless of the rights of others, imperfectly democratic at home though quick to see the minor slaveries of others, and greedy without end. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| d31fe87 | On Earth, we are unmanned by our longing for a pastoral past that never really existed; and that, if it had existed, could never exist again...on the Moon, there is no past to long for or dream about. There is no direction but forward. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| e3ec7e9 | Rules, established with reason and justice, can easily outlive their usefulness as circumstances change, yet can remain in force through inertia. It is then not only right, but useful, to break those rules as a way of advertising the fact that they have become useless--or even actually harmful. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| f9ef1ec | The word 'tradition' covered it all, as it covered so many things, some useful, some foolish. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 6eff941 | But emotion had come upon him after all. Not for fifty billion people. What in Time did he care for fifty billion people? There was just one. One person. | time | Isaac Asimov | |
| 573e9b8 | People say 'It's as plain as the noise on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone hold a mirror up to you? | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 6df5d26 | It was a long time since he'd done any actual clinical work, and obviously his sojourn among the academics at Saro University had attenuated the professional detachment that allows members of the healing arts to confront the ill without being overwhelmed by compassion and sorrow. He was surprised at that, how tenderhearted he seemed to have become, how thin-skinned. | healing | Isaac Asimov | |
| 206d322 | With the destruction of our social fabric, science will be broken into a million pieces. Individuals will know much of exceedingly tiny facets of what there is to know. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 894c63d | Carbon is the basis of human life and iron of robot life. It becomes easy to speak of C/Fe when you wish express a culture that combines the best of the two on an equal but parallel basis. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| d939181 | Every telecomm company is as big a corporate welfare bum as you could ask for. Try to imagine what it would cost at market rates to go around to every house in every town in every country and pay for the right to block traffic and dig up roads and erect poles and string wires and pierce every home with cabling. The regulatory fiat that allows these companies to get their networks up and running is worth hundreds of billions, if not trillion.. | common-carrier telcos | Cory Doctorow | |
| d7dbdab | The fact was, there wasn't room on earth for a couple million gold-farmers to turn into high-paid video-game executives. The fact was, if you had to slice the pie into enough pieces to give one to everyone, you'd end up slicing them so thin you could see through them. "When 30,000 people share an apple, no one benefits -- especially not the apple." It was a quote one of his economics profs had kept written in the corner of his white-board, .. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| dac41ef | Somewhere, in a distant land he barely knew the name of, people had stopped buying washing machines, and so his city had died. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 4e13a43 | The number of games went up or down according to the brutal, elegant logic of the economics of fun: a certain amount of difficulty plus a certain amount of your friends plus a certain amount of interesting strangers plus a certain amount of reward plus a certain amount of opportunity equaled fun | gaming-theory | Cory Doctorow | |
| 5d18b8a | It was like finding Attila the Hun at a yoga class. Like finding Darth Vader playing ultimate Frisbee in the park. Like finding Megatron volunteering at a children's hospital. Like finding Nightmare Moon having a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese. | mlp referencing-pop-culture starwars transformers | Cory Doctorow | |
| 4b9063f | Man is never perfect, nor contended. | Jules Verne | ||
| 712644b | What!You know German? | Jules Verne | ||
| 1c44215 | I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new. | Jules Verne | ||
| 5260af4 | As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme | humour | Jules Verne | |
| 52c8729 | At Kiel, as elsewhere, a day goes by somehow or other. | Jules Verne |