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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 214b781 | Priiatelite, koito sme zagubili ne pochivat v zemiata, te sa pogrebani v s'rtsata ni, po bozhiia volia, za da ni pridruzhavat navred. Az imam dvama blizki, koito me pridruzhavat taka: ediniiat e tozi, komuto d'lzha zhivota si, drugiiat - tozi, komuto d'lzha razumnostta si. Dukh't na vseki ot tiakh zhivee v mene. S'vetvam se s tiakh v moment na kolebanie i ako s'm storil niakakvo dobro, to se d'lzhi na tekhnite s'veti. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| c81b296 | Unfortunately in this world of ours, each person views things through a certain medium, which prevents his seeing them in the same light as others... | perspective view worldview | Alexandre Dumas | |
| 43875d3 | God almost always opens two ways which lead thither, the ways of sorrow and of love. | Alexandre Dumas-fils | ||
| 074caa8 | I am orderly out of spirit of idleness, to save myself the trouble of looking after things... | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 38c3fa6 | I have always heard it said that that is the rarest service, but the easiest to render. The remark struck me; I like to cite remarks that strike me. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 12310c1 | apprendre n'est pas savoir; il y a les sachants et les savants: c'est la memoire qui fait les uns, c'est la philosophie qui fait les autres. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| a4c397c | az s'm ot tezi, koito smiatat, che golemite neshcha zapochvat ot malkite. Deteto e malko, no to s'd'rzha choveka, moz'k't e mal'k, no v nego se s'khraniava mis'lta, okoto e samo edna tochka, no obgr'shcha prostranstvata. | човека мисълта мозъкът окото пространства | Alexandre Dumas-fils | |
| dd43d06 | Que de routes prend et que de raisons se donne le coeur pour en arriver a ce qu'il veut ! | Alexandre Dumas-fils | ||
| 500aca5 | I began a poem in lines of one syllable. It's rather difficult, but the merit of all things lies in their difficulty. The subject matter is gallant. I'll read you the first canto; it's four hundred verses long and takes one minute. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| b3fd359 | The novelist Dumas would one day borrow features from both of his uncles, not to mention his grandfather, the acknowledged scoundrel, in fashioning the central villains of The Count of Monte Cristo. Reading court documents detailing the sordid unraveling of Charles's sham fortune, which would have devastating effects on his daughter and her unsuspecting husband, I couldn't help thinking that one of the interesting things about Dumas's villa.. | count-of-monte evil villains | Tom Reiss | |
| 5ba1e8e | The sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and hope." ~Edmond Dantes" | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 15313ec | I never swear, Monseigneur. I say Yes or No, and as I am a gentleman, I keep my word. | gentleman honor morals word | Alexandre Dumas | |
| 87d72c4 | It was more like an abortion than music, but he got a wildly enthusiastic response from the crowd. Well, we're all pro-choice out here in Hillmont, after all. | music | Frank Portman | |
| 627133a | The way that the meal or the music or the movie makes you feel in the moment--either good or bad--could be called experienced utility. | Barry Schwartz | ||
| a3bb37c | The existence of multiple alternatives makes it easy for us to imagine alternatives that don't exist--alternatives that combine the attractive features of the ones that do exist. And to the extent that we engage our imaginations in this way, we will be even less satisfied with the alternative we end up choosing. So, once again, a greater variety of choices actually makes us feel worse. | Barry Schwartz | ||
| 4b8e31e | If you seek and accept only the best, you are a maximizer. | Barry Schwartz | ||
| b6fb068 | We get what we say we want, only to discover that what we want doesn't satisfy us to the degree that we expect. | Barry Schwartz | ||
| 9ffabcf | Buying jeans is a trivial matter, but it suggests a much larger theme we will pursue throughout this book, which is this: When people have no choice, life is almost unbearable. | Barry Schwartz | ||
| b300d25 | Mass education, because it produces hosts of badly educated people liberated from fatalism, will contribute to instability (p. 123). | Robert D. Kaplan | ||
| be100d3 | Have you noticed that the narrower the view the more you can see? For the first time I understand how old ladies can sit on their porches for years. | Walker Percy | ||
| ad096c3 | Yes, interest! The worm of interest. Are you surprised? No? Yes? One conclusion I have reached here after a year in my cell is that the only emotion people feel nowadays is interest or the lack of it. Curiosity and interest and boredom have replaced the so-called emotions we used to read about in novels or see registered on actors' faces. Even the horrors of the age translate into interest. Did you ever watch anybody pick up a newspaper and.. | Walker Percy | ||
| 56681d6 | The second I left my old life's cowpath, I discovered I didn't need a drink. It became possible to stand still in the dark under the oaks, hands at my sides, and watch and wait. | Walker Percy | ||
| 4ec1465 | In my new freedom I remember thinking: If one knows what he wants to do, others will not only not stand in the way but will lend a hand from simple curiosity and amazement. | Walker Percy | ||
| 8bd4d6a | having only learned to recognize merde when I see it, having inherited no more from my father than a good nose for merde, for every species of shit that flies--my only talent--smelling merde from every quarter, living in fact in the very century of merde, the great shithouse of scientific humanism where needs are satisfied, everyone becomes an anyone, a warm and creative person, and prospers like a dung beetle... | Walker Percy | ||
| df4efcb | You are a member of the first generation of doctors in the history of medicine to turn their backs on the oath of Hippocrates and kill millions of old useless people, unborn children, born malformed children, for the good of mankind --and to do so without a single murmur from one of you. Not a single letter of protest in the august New England Journal of Medicine. And do you know what you're going to end up doing? You a graduate of Harvard .. | eugenics medical-ethics | Walker Percy | |
| fc68eba | It, the self, is in fact the only alien in the entire Cosmos. The modern objective consciousness will go to any length to prove that it is not unique in the Cosmos, and by this very effort establishes its own uniqueness. Name another entity in the Cosmos which tries to prove it is not unique. The earth-self seeks to understand the Cosmos overtly according to scientific principles while covertly exempting itself from the same understanding. .. | the-self | Walker Percy | |
| 8e2093d | What she didn't understand, she being spiritual and seeing religion as spirit, was that it took religion to save me from the spirit world, from orbiting the earth like Lucifer and the angels, that it took nothing less than touching the thread off the misty interstates and eating Christ himself to make me mortal man again and let me inhabit my own flesh and love her in the morning. | Walker Percy | ||
| 73e97eb | At night the years come back and perch around my bed like ghosts. | Walker Percy | ||
| 9606742 | Why do people often feel bad in good environments and good in bad environments? Why did Mother Teresta think that affluent Westerners often seemed poorer than the Calcutta poor, the poorest of the poor? The paradox comes to pass because the impoverishments and enrichments of a in a are not necessarily the same as the impoverishments and enrichments of an in an . The organism is needy or not needy accordingly as needs are satisfied or.. | Walker Percy | ||
| a1cef29 | But the expectation of the self, to be informed in its nothingness--if only I can get out of this old place and into the right new place, I can become a new person--places a heavy burden on travel. | Walker Percy | ||
| ea45e63 | People who are ordinarily understood to dislike each other or at least to be indifferent toward each other discover that they have much in common. | relationship | Walker Percy | |
| ff049dc | In a badass, beer-glass brawl, would you rather have an academic liberal covering your back or a hobnailed redneck? | James Lee Burke | ||
| 1837da3 | You've got another problem. Like most white trash, you're disrespectful to your betters and proud of your stupidity and ignorance. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 3e6bd63 | The evening sky was streaked with purple, the color of torn plums, and a light rain had started to fall when I came to the end of the blacktop road that cut through twenty miles of thick, almost impenetrable scrub oak and pine and stopped at the front gate of Angola penitentiary. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 5fb374b | Sometimes he comes to me in my dreams, and I wonder if ironically all our stories were written on his skin back there in Texas City in 1947. Or maybe that's just poetic illusion purchased by time. But even in the middle of an Indian summer's day, when the sugarcane is beaten with purple and gold light in the fields and the sun is both warm and cool on your skin at the same time, when I know that the earth is a fine place after all, I have t.. | James Lee Burke | ||
| f9d78e5 | Colored or not, we all pick the white man's cotton. | cajun louisiana | James Lee Burke | |
| 85a48f3 | I used to know a carnival man turned preacher who said the key to his success was understanding the people of what he called Snake's Navel, Arkansas. He said in Snake's Navel, the biggest thing going on Saturday night was the Dairy Queen. He said you could get the people there to do damn near anything --pollute their own water, work at five-dollar-an-hour jobs, drive fifty miles to a health clinic-- as long as you packaged it right. That me.. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 719e479 | Sono innamorato di te, e non sono il tipo da negare a me stesso il semplice piacere di dire cose vere. Sono innamorato di te, e so che l'amore non e che un grido nel vuoto, e che l'oblio e inevitabile, e che siamo tutti dannati e che verra un giorno in cui tutti i nostri sforzi saranno ridotti in polvere, e so che il sole inghiottira l'unica terra che avremo mai, e sono innamorato di te. | John Green | ||
| 539aa86 | UFOs are back in the news, and it is high time we took a serious look at the phenomenon. (Actually the time is ten past eight, so not only are we a few minutes late but I'm hungry). | Woody Allen | ||
| e72af3d | I believe that Marrakech ought to be earned as a destination. The journey is the preparation for the experience. Reaching it too fast derides it, makes it a little less easy to understand. | marrakech travel | Tahir Shah | |
| 4168513 | Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else. | india travel | Tahir Shah | |
| c1bdd10 | Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood. | reading | Tahir Shah | |
| e3de387 | But in Africa bureaucrats are usually too proud to accept a bribe, something I admire when I'm not the one being arrested. | bribery bureaucracy pride | Tahir Shah | |
| e47510e | He came to the conclusion that humans confused the content with the container. They would gorge themselves on great plates of inferior food, imagining it to be delicious because there was simply so much of it. Or, they would make half wits their leaders, merely because they were pleasing to the eye, or because their words were spoken in honeyed voices. And when it came to information, they would champion weighty tomes that contained almost .. | Tahir Shah |