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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1c98571 | La voluntad, el deseo de vivir, es tan fuerte en el animal como en el hombre. En el hombre es mayor la comprension. A mas comprender, corresponde menos desear. Esto es logico, y ademas se comprueba en la realidad. La apetencia por conocer se despierta en los individuos que aparecen al final de una evolucion, cuando el instinto de vivir languidece. El hombre, cuya necesidad es conocer, es como la mariposa que rompe la crisalida para morir. E.. | don-quijote existentialism pesimism science | Pío Baroja | |
| 647db5d | The real tragedy of humankind,' Shealtiel used to say, 'is not that the persecuted and enslaved crave to be liberated and to hold their heads high. No. The worst thing is that the enslaved secretly dream of enslaving their enslavers. The persecuted yearn to be persecutors. The slaves dream of being masters. As in the book of Esther. | Amos Oz | ||
| e38c061 | dhlk 'nnWn~ '`tqd lywm 'n kl sfr f~ rHl@ m hw l Hmq@ kbyr@ : lrHl@ lwHyd@ lt~ l n`wd mnh dy'm Sfr lydyn h~ lrHl@ ldkhly@, f~ ldkhl l twjd Hdwd wl jmrk, ymkn lwSwl Ht~ l~ 'b`d lnjwm 'w ltmshW~ f~ 'mkn lm t`d mwjwd@ , wzyr@ 'shkhS lm y`wdw `l~ Zhr l'rD. wHt~ ldkhwl l~ 'mkn lm tkn mwjwd@ f~ ywm mn l'ym wrbm m kn wjwdh mmkn wlkn~ 'rtH fyh 'w `l~ l'ql lys syy' . | Amos Oz | ||
| 30b3381 | once you have lifted your foot, do not be in a hurry to put it down again: who can tell what menacing nest of vipers you might step on. | Amos Oz | ||
| 98341a2 | kl hdh kn tshykhwfyan- wkdhlk kn lsh`wr bln'y \l`zl@ : hnk fy l`lm 'mkn ttHqq fyh lHy@ lHqyqy@, b`ydan mn hn, fy 'wrwb m qbl htlr, fy kl ms tD mSbyH kthyr@, wlsydt w lsd@ yltqwn lshrb fnjn qhw@ m` lkrym fy q`t msqwf@ blkhshb, yjlswn mrtHyn fy mqhin fkhr@ tHt njft mdhhb@, w ydhhbwn w hm ymskwn b'dhr` b`D l~ 'wbr w blyh, yrwn `n kthb Hy@ lfnnyn lkbr, wqSS lHb lmst`r, w nksrt lqlwb, Hbyb@ lrsm lty `shqt fj@ 'qrb 'Sdqy'h,lmlHn, w fy mntSf llyl .. | Amos Oz | ||
| 20f7739 | We could talk about totally different things. Like the seasons of the year, for example, or even the star-filled sky of these summer nights: I'm interested in stars and nebulas. Maybe you are, too? | Amos Oz | ||
| 24a37c9 | And so I learnt the secret of diversity. Life is made up of different avenues. Everything can happen in one of several ways, according to different musical scores and parallel logics. Each of these parallel logics is consistent and coherent in its own terms, perfect in itself, indifferent to all the others. In | Amos Oz | ||
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Citar es respirar literatura para no ahogarse entre los topicos castizos y ocurrentes que le vienen a uno a la pluma cuando se empena en esa vulgaridad suprema de < |
diatario-voluble enrique-vila-matas | Enrique Vila-Matas | |
| f7aaa30 | el mejor de la vida es viajar y perder las teorias, perderlas todas. | viajar | Enrique Vilas-Matas | |
| 6027273 | Why is the human need to be in control relevant to a discussion of random patterns? Because if events are random, we are not in control, and if we are in control of events, they are not random, there is therefore a fundamental clash between our need to feel we are in control and our ability to recognize randomness. That clash is one of the principal reasons we misinterpret random events. In fact, inducing people to mistake luck for skills, .. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 1096608 | When we are in the grasp of illusion - or, for that matter, whenever we have a new idea - instead of searching for ways to prove our ideas wrong, we usually attempt to prove them correct. Psychologists call this the confirmation bias, and it presents a major impediment of our ability to break free from the misinterpretation of randomness. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 7e9079c | To gain a true understanding of human experience, we must understand both our conscious and our unconscious selves, and how they interact. Our subliminal brain is invisible to us, yet it influences our conscious experience of the world in the most fundamental of ways: how we view ourselves and others, the meanings we attach to the everyday events of our lives, our ability to make the quick judgment calls and decisions that can sometimes mea.. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 3fbde94 | Prophet,' he said, 'Your doctrines I do not know; therefore if I accepted them, I would do it out of fear like a coward and a base man. Are you anxious that your faith be professed by cowards and base people? | courage faith strength strength-and-courage strength-through-adversity | Henryk Sienkiewicz | |
| 4b665f6 | Moeto shchastie mina, i radostta mi otmina, no az ne s'm zla. | примирение | Henryk Sienkiewicz | |
| 395deb2 | She wasted and grew so thin that she no longer was a little girl, but the shadow of a little girl. The flame of her life flickered so faintly that it appeared sufficient to blow at it to extinguish it. Stas understood that death did not have to wait for a third attack to take her and he expected it any day or any hour. | death death-and-dying disease malaria sickness wilderness | Henryk Sienkiewicz | |
| 1233ecc | I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence. | Gloria E. Anzaldúa | ||
| 4bbe77e | We have been focusing on the role that psychiatry and its medications may be playing in this epidemic, and the evidence is quite clear. First, by greatly expanding diagnostic boundaries, psychiatry is inviting and ever-greater number of children and adults into the mental illness camp. Second, those so diagnosed are then treated with psychiatric medications that increase the likelihood they will become chronically ill. Many treated with psy.. | Robert Whitaker | ||
| 61b3a68 | Recovery on the med model requires you to be obedient, like a child," she explains. "You are obedient to your doctors, you are compliant with your therapist, and you take your meds. There's no striving toward greater intellectual concerns. (123)" | Robert Whitaker | ||
| c7ed4ea | That is where we stand as a nation today. Twenty years ago, our society began regularly prescribing psychiatric drugs to children and adolescents, and now one out of every fifteen Americans enters adulthood with a "serious mental illness." That is proof of the most tragic sort that our drug-based paradigm of care is doing a great deal more harm than good. The medicating of children and youth became commonplace only a short time ago, and alr.. | Robert Whitaker | ||
| 79992cd | Psychosis does not live in the head. It lives in the in-between of family members, and in the in-between of people," Salo explained. "It is in the relationship, and the one who is psychotic makes the bad condition visible. He or she 'wears the symptoms' and has the burden to carry them." (341)" | Robert Whitaker | ||
| a4434c3 | Ningun cazador del cielo debe acabar su vida como presa. Vale mas morir volando que atrapado en tierra. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 79125f8 | Swiadomosc tego, co cie spotyka, sprawi mi bol niezaleznie od tego, gdzie bede. (...) Wiesz, ze gdybym mogla, poprosilabym, aby bat spadl raczej na moje cialo. - A ty wiesz - ucalowal ja w oba policzki - ze nie pozwolilbym ci zajac mego miejsca. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 3aaca8b | A moment later, in an even fainter voice, he whispered, "Do not mourn me" | Christopher Paolini | ||
| cf6bfe1 | On its own, being a decent person is no guarantee that you will act well, which brings us back to the one protection we have against demagogues, tricksters, and the madness of crowds, and our surest guide through the uncertain shoals of life: clear and reasoned thinking. Logic will never fail you, unless you're unaware of--or deliberately ignore--the consequences of your deeds. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| e081db6 | Finding one's place in the world is never easy. Have courage and be true to who you are. | change-the-world courage inspirational | Christopher Paolini | |
| 1d98293 | The way of the warrior is the way of knowing. If that knowledge requires you to use anger, then you use anger, but you cannot wrest forth knowledge by losing your temper. Pain and frustration will be your only reward if you try. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 2833b13 | You worry about a crack in the floor while the whole mountain is about to come down on us! | Christopher Paolini | ||
| e3f3f8a | In his treatise on the battles between the gods underlying ancient Dionysian theatre, the young Nietzsche notes: 'Alas! The magic of these struggles is such, that he who sees them must also take part in them.' Similarly, an anthropology of the practising life is infected by its subject. Dealing with practices, asceticisms and exercises, whether or not they are declared as such, the theorist inevitably encounters his own inner constitution, .. | nietzsche practising | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| b82ff71 | Why not? For your information I'm hoping it doesn't last more than a month or two myself.? His words stung as sharply as a slap across the face. "Maybe by that time you'll be miserable enough to be willing to marry me-" | Debbie Macomber | ||
| 5897ca4 | I think sometimes we love so deeply, so profoundly, that anything else pales by comparison. | debbie-macomber love the-trouble-with-angels | Debbie Macomber | |
| 4dd03e2 | Don't be a quitter. Try harder. Don't be so picky. Be willing to start at the bottom. Prove yourself. | Debbie Macomber | ||
| 7d3d4af | Take charge of your life. Don't be afraid to pursue your dreams. Work hard and don't listen to anyone who says you can't, because you can and you will. | Debbie Macomber | ||
| 80b7764 | Your favorite author? This was an important question. I'd dated men who had never read a book. Reading was a passion of mine and I couldn't imagine being involved with someone who didn't understand the importance of books and stories. | Debbie Macomber | ||
| a324beb | With God's help she could forge a path where there hadn't been one before. With God's help she would make a way where there was none. | Debbie Macomber | ||
| c9c4638 | It alters you irrevocably when you reach 30 years old and | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 944d06b | I didn't know till then the stars, in flakes of snow come down to fuck the earth, the lake. | sex the-white-hotel | D.M. Thomas | |
| ebcec5a | She wondered if she had grown obsessed with sex. She admitted to thinking about it almost all the time. ... "And if I'm not thinking about sex, I'm thinking about death," she added bitterly. "Sometimes both at the same time." | sex | D.M. Thomas | |
| bbdeddc | Because I'm going to make you understand the family motto: Never let your obstacles become more important than your goal. | Dashka Slater | ||
| 0431fd0 | Louis said, "There ought to be a comic book about geeks." Dr. McNaughton said, "There are books about geeks." He said, "There are?" Dr. McNaughton said, "I'll read you some Faulkner sometime. I'll read you some Eudora Welty, some Flannery O'Connor. Geeks, midgets, anything your heart desires. Better than comic books." Louis looked at his father. He said, "You'll read to me? Really?" | reading | Lewis Nordan | |
| 69e26c7 | When I was your age I knew how to listen to television and learn a few things. | television | Lewis Nordan | |
| 251d5bd | Yes, it is you, and I am in love with you and I am going to be frank with you, brutally frank, because when you have an equal you can afford to be frank. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 74ac79e | Can you feel your pulse? That means Valek isn't here, because if he was, you'd be dead. No pulse. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 666f6da | if you put enough sheep together you have a herd--a force to be reckoned with. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 3c1c35c | I think of the memory as being rather like a dam," he said, after a pause for thought. "It irrigates and gives life to our whole spirit. But, like a dam, it needs overflow channels if it's not to burst its banks. Because if it ever does overflow or burst, its waters will destroy everything in its path." -- | Bernardo Atxaga |