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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9417fea | if men and women would only trust, understand, and help one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!' and Mrs. Jo's eyes grew absent, as if she was looking at a new and charming state of society in which people lived as happily and innocently as her flock at Plumfield. | louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| afcd409 | As an intense, nicotine-stained, Jean-Paul Sartre sort of man, wasn't it simple logic to expect that he'd be limited to intense, nicotine-stained Jean-Paul Sartre sorts of Women? | Richard Yates | ||
| 95c99f3 | How come he cannot recognize his own cruelty now turned against him? How come he can't see his own savagery as a colonist in the savagery of these oppressed peasants who have absorbed it through every pore and for which they can find no cure? The answer is simple: this arrogant individual, whose power of authority and fear of losing it has gone to his head, has difficulty remembering he was once a man; he thinks he is a whip or a gun; he is.. | violence | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| 841cc40 | Outside nature, against nature, without excuse, beyond remedy, except what remedy I find within myself. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| a5846f7 | 'stTy` 'n 'qys qw@ `Tft~ lw 'tyt mn l'`ml m yw'kdh wySdq `lyh. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| e328124 | When I was little, my Aunt Bigeois told me "If you look at yourself too long in the mirror, you'll see a monkey." I must have looked at myself even longer than that: what I see is well below the monkey, on the fringe of the vegetable world, at the level of jellyfish... The eyes especially are horrible seen so close. They are glassy, soft, blind, red-rimmed, they look like fish scales... A silky white down covers the great slopes of the chee.. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 8ea30dd | Que me den algo que hacer, lo que sea! Seria preferible que pensara en otra cosa, porque en este momento estoy por representarme la comedia. Se muy bien que no quiero hacer nada; hacer algo es crear existencia, y ya hay bastante existencia. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| b98371c | Oh, what a nuisance you are! I'm giving you my mouth, my arms, my whole body - and everything could be so simple...My trust! I haven't any to give, I'm afraid, and you're making me terribly embarrassed. You must have something pretty ghastly on your conscience to make such a fuss about my trusting you. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 5fc1eb3 | The rain has stopped, the air is mild, the sky slowly rolls up fine black images : it is more than enough to frame the perfect moment ; to reflect these images, she would cause dark little tides to be born in our hearts. I don't know how to take advantage of the occasion : I walk at random, calm and empty, under this wasted sky. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 3cbf101 | Once Right has taken hold of a man exorcism cannot drive it out. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| f1b1ae6 | Now I knew: things are entirely what they appear to be--and behind them . . . there is nothing. This | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| ccdd8a2 | Celebrity, for me, equal hatred | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 3ec8d11 | Her smiles, her mimicries, all the words she uttered were addressed to herself through him. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 3fd7fc1 | certain details, somewhat curtailed, live in my memory. But I don't see anything anymore: I can search the past in vain, I can only find these scraps of images and I am not sure what they represent, whether they are memories or just fiction. | memory sartre | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| 9a16baa | I go, I go away, I walk, I wander, and everywhere I go I bear my shell with me, I remain at home in my room, among my books, I do not approach an inch nearer to Marrakech or Timbuktu. Even if I took a train, a boat, or a motor-bus, if I went to Morocco for my holiday, if I suddenly arrived at Marrakech, I should be always in my room, at home. And if I walked in the squares and in the sooks, if I gripped an Arab's shoulder, to feel Marrakech.. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 037fcdf | Perhaps it was a passing moment of madness after all. There is no trace of it any more. My odd feelings of the other week seem to me quite ridiculous today: I can no longer enter into them. | madness nausea | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| cd2b612 | For a hundred dead stories there still remain one or two living ones. I evoke these with caution, occasionally, not too often, for fear of wearing them out, I fish one out, again I see the scenery, the characters, the attitudes. I stop suddenly: there is a flaw, I have seen a word pierce through the web of sensations. I suppose that this word will soon take the place of several images I love. I must stop quickly and think of something else;.. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 3ac71e6 | I haven't any troubles, I have some money like a gentleman of leisure, no boss, no wife, no children; I exist, that's all. And that particular trouble is so vague, so metaphysical, that I am ashamed of it. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 3d8ba76 | Before we knew it, we were walking along the breakwater until the whole city, shining with silence, speak out at our feet like the greatest mirage in the universe, emerging from the pool of the harbor waters. We sat on the edge of the jetty to gaze at the sight. "This city is a sorceress, you know, Daniel? It gets under your skin and steals your soul without you knowing it." | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 8a67a0b | Shame is a distinct feeling. I couldn't look at my hands around the coffee cup or hear my own laments without feeling appalled, wanting desperately to fall silent, grow smaller. More than that, I was uncomfortably conscious of my whole body, from the awkward way that the shafts of my hair were thrusting out of my scalp to my feet, which felt dirty as well as cold. Everywhere, I seemed to feel my skin from the inside, as if it now stood away.. | Jane Smiley | ||
| f5554ec | Failure was startling, really. So startling that I hardly noticed it at all. | racing | Jane Smiley | |
| 3fbb501 | In her minds eye she sat there, in the domesticated golden sunlight on the velvet sofa, lapped around by carpets and books and mahogany, solitary and content, as if, in fact, cloistered. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 1705b2a | In the wrong hands," Leto said, "monolithic centralized power is a dangerous and volatile instrument." - "And your hands are the right ones?" | Frank Herbert | ||
| d031770 | Three quick breaths triggered the responses: he fell into the floating awareness... focusing the consciousness... aortal dilation... avoiding the unfocused mechanism of consciousness... to be conscious by choice... blood enriched and swift-flooding the overload regions... one does not obtain food-safety freedom by instinct alone... animal consciousness does not extend beyond the given moment nor into the idea that its victims may become ext.. | mind mindfulness | Frank Herbert | |
| 354e0e0 | Paradox is a pointer telling you to look beyond it. If paradoxes bother you, that betrays your deep desire for absolutes. The relativist treats a paradox merely as interesting, perhaps amusing or even, dreadful thought, educational. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 3135090 | I have said: "Blow out the lamp! Day is here!" And you keep saying: "Give me a lamp so I can find the day." | wisdom | Frank Herbert | |
| 66be40d | More fool he to let himself become an addict to anything, even to living. | Frank Herbert | ||
| e2accb2 | We know the major conditions wherein this large populace may turn upon its keepers - One: When they find a leader. This is the most volatile threat to the powerful; they must retain control of leaders. Two: When the populace recognises its chains. Keep the populace blind and unquestioning. Three: When the populace perceives a hope of escape from bondage. They must never even believe that escape is possible! | Frank Herbert | ||
| 628cc85 | The more I find out, the more I realize that I don't know what's going on." "How fortunate that you have discovered the way of wisdom," Leto said." | Frank Herbert | ||
| 84d0daf | I cannot lie to you any more than I could lie to myself," Paul said. "I know this. Every man should have such an auditor." | Frank Herbert | ||
| 3b1854c | Belief fixes a granular universe and causes that universe to persist. Nothing can be allowed to change because that way your non-moving universe vanishes. But it moves of itself when you do not. It evolves beyond you and is no longer accessible to you. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 62394ee | But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things. | books education learning | Frank Herbert | |
| ee15abd | No conoceras el miedo. El miedo mata la mente. El miedo es la pequena muerte que conduce a la destruccion total. Afrontare mi miedo. Permitire que pase sobre mi y a traves de mi. Y cuando haya pasado girare mi ojo interior para escrutar su camino. Alla donde haya pasado el miedo ya no habra nada. Solo estare yo. | Frank Herbert | ||
| fde1a46 | Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Something cannot emerge from nothing. | heritage legacy word-of-god | Frank Herbert | |
| d12f7fc | They were such seriously futile people that she found herself wanting to cry out against their ready-made justifications for pointless lives. | Frank Herbert | ||
| f5dd8f8 | This is the age of the shrug. He knows I've heard all of the stories about him and he doesn't care. Our civilization could well die of indifference within it before succumbing to external attack. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 32207d9 | One of the key characteristics of an elite corps is its susceptibility to those more powerful than itself. Elite power is naturally attracted to a power hierarchy and fits itself neatly, obediently into the one that promises the most personal benefits. Here is the Achilles' heel of armies, police and bureaucracies. | bureaucracies bureaucracy elite hierarchy power | Frank Herbert | |
| eea9ef5 | Some never participate. Life happens to them. They get by on little more than dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence all things that might lift them out of resentment-filled illusions of security. -Alma Mavis Taraza | Frank Herbert | ||
| e73c8c5 | It's very difficult convincing the young of anything. They're born knowing so much. | Frank Herbert | ||
| de8b71a | Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know. | Frank Herbert | ||
| a91fb25 | I should've suspected trouble when the coffee failed to arrive. | coffee tactics | Frank Herbert | |
| 203443b | The difference between a good administrator and a bad one is about five heartbeats. Good administrators make immediate choices. | Frank Herbert | ||
| c4b88e7 | And loyalty is a valued commodity. It can be sold . . . not bought, but sold. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 7660e5d | Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself. | Frank Herbert |