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| 578f981 | Korku cezadan cok daha beterdir, cunku ceza bellidir, agir da olsa, hafif de, hicbir zaman belirsizligin dehseti kadar, o sonsuz gerilimin urkunclugu kadar kotu degildir. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| e603d7e | Dunyayi isler tutan sey, umut, yalnizca umuttu... | umut | Stefan Zweig | |
| c8a4ad5 | My today and each of my yesterdays, my rises and falls, are so diverse that I sometimes feel as if I had lived not one, but several existences, each one different from the others. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| e583d94 | in the general throng, many a fool receives decorations and titles. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 3145db3 | I had an irresistible desire to make a last effort to awaken your memory. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| d1ed133 | wm mn s`d@ fy mSyr nsn '`Zm mn 'n yktshf , whw fy mntSf l`mr, 'y fy snwt lrjwl@ lkhlq@, rsl@ Hyth! | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 3a845ff | Yaptigi o kadar da kotu bir sey degildi. Nicin bu kadar sert bir ceza veriyorsun? Kucuk kizina acimiyor musun hic ? Kucuge aciyip acimadigimi sordun, degil mi? Cevabim, artik acimiyorum, olacak. Cunku bu zor gelse de, cezalandirildigi andan itibaren ici rahatlamistir. Asil dun mutsuzdu, zavalli ati kirip ocaga attiktan sonra evdeki herkes onu ararken, her an, her dakika bulunacagi korkusuyla yasiyordu. Korku cezadan cok daha beterdir, cunku.. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| bc811a4 | Cunku sadece kendi kaderlerini bir gizem olarak yasayabilenlerin gercek anlamda yasadiklarina inaniyorum. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 26048d3 | It is only the immeasurable, the limitless that terrifies us. That which is set within defined, fixed limits is a challenge to our powers, comes to be the measure of our strength. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 78e2bde | Bir insan kendisini bulduktan sonra, onun bu dunyada kaybedebilecegi hicbir sey yoktur. Ve o kisi kendi icindeki insanligi anladiktan sonra, butun insanlari anlayacaktir. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 7e28141 | There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one. | life vindictive world | Stefan Zweig | |
| 1724f80 | El que no tiene patria posee el mundo, el que se ha desprendido de todo posee la vida entera y el que no tiene culpa goza de paz. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| ab0054a | But since those days in Vienna I had been aware that Austria was lost, not yet suspecting, to be sure, how much I had lost thereby. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 55b5335 | In the last analysis it seems likely that they were wiser than I, all those friends in Vienna, because they suffered everything only when it really happened, whereas I had already suffered the disaster in advance in my fantasy, and then again when it became reality. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 0737efb | Throughout his job ordeal, my father never complained. He remained an Iranian who loved his native country but who also believed in American ideals. He only said how sad it was that people so easily hate an entire population simply because of the actions of a few. And what a waste it is to hate, he always said. What a waste. | Firoozeh Dumas | ||
| 6439c6c | A person who searched rooms, brandished pistols, dangled promises of half a million franc fees for nameless services and then wrote instructions to Polish spies might reasonably be regarded with suspicion. But suspicion of what? | Eric Ambler | ||
| 8954155 | In the beginning was the Mother, the Word began a new era, one we have come to call Patriarchy. | Marilyn French | ||
| 4b8bec1 | Living in an age of casual sex, serial commitments, and frequent divorce, we are all in danger of becoming as jaded as anceien regime aristocrats. Does the notion of undying love still have any meaning for us today? | Marilyn Yalom | ||
| 911ca11 | A person who breaks a promise diminishes herself. It's like losing a finger. It's worse than being paralyzed, which is merely physical. Someone whose promises are worthless has a disabled soul. | Ken Follett | ||
| 60c69f4 | Lenin's idea of relaxation was to sit down with a foreign-language dictionary for an hour or two. | Ken Follett | ||
| f8fdf65 | It was unladylike even to know the name of your lawyer, let alone to understand your rights under the law. No wonder women were mercilessly exploited. | Ken Follett | ||
| 932b119 | She was wilful, maddening, quarrelsome and intolerant, but somehow these things were trifling: there was a passion inside her that burned like a candle in a lantern, and it lit up his life. | Ken Follett | ||
| 40363bf | man thought he could fly, so he jumped off the top of a ten-story building, and as he fell past the fifth floor, flapping his arms uselessly in the air, he was heard to say: 'So far, so good. | Ken Follett | ||
| bb7fb01 | He believed in Communism the way most people believed in God: he would not be greatly surprised or disappointed if he turned out to be wrong, and meanwhile it made little difference to the way he lived. | Ken Follett | ||
| ad35910 | He was looking forward to letting Joanne know, in a casual way, that he had read these books. | Ken Follett | ||
| ebb5ea1 | We will have to repent, in this generation, not merely for the hateful words and actions of bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good,' King said, | Ken Follett | ||
| ac46814 | When you were trying to enforce law and order, it was difficult to explain that the rules did not actually apply to you personally. | Ken Follett | ||
| 53959c5 | After the Battle of Midway it was clear that the Pacific war would be won by planes launched from ships. Both Japan and the United States began crash programs to build aircraft carriers as fast as possible. During 1943 and 1944, Japan produced seven of these huge, costly vessels. In the same period, the United States produced ninety. | Ken Follett | ||
| 690d367 | He had forgotten that God saw through the silk robes to the sinful heart, that the only wealth worth having was treasure in heaven, and that even the king had to kneel down in church. Feeling that everyone else was so much more powerful and sophisticated than he was, he had lost sight of his true values, suspended his critical faculties, and placed his trust in his superiors. His reward had been treachery. | faith inspirational religious | Ken Follett | |
| 1cca548 | Talvez os selvagens nunca abandonem o poder - afirmou Philip com ar de desalento. - Talvez a cobica nunca deixe de pesar mais nos conselhos dos poderosos que a sabedoria; talvez o medo nunca deixe de vencer a compaixao na mente dum homem com uma espada empunhada. | Ken Follett | ||
| f352455 | Trials rarely found men not guilty. The general view was that if a man were innocent he would not have got into trouble in the first place. | Ken Follett | ||
| 91dfd15 | Monika answered for her father. Giving Walter a conspiratorial grin, she said: "Daddy used to say that if the tsar had been born to a different station in life, he might, with an effort, have become a competent postman." | Ken Follett | ||
| ba7654e | All men make mistakes,' said the ancient Greek Sophocles. 'But a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only sin is pride. | Ken Follett | ||
| f8078bb | When you're about to be turned down, go for a postponement. | Ken Follett | ||
| d561454 | They did not suspect her for a moment. It did not occur to them that a woman could be dangerous. How foolish they were. Women could do most of the things men did. Who was left in charge when the men were fighting wars, or going on crusades? There were women carpenters, dyers, tanners, bakers and brewers. | women | Ken Follett | |
| c9f7fa0 | The power of a king was not absolute, after all: it could be restrained by the will of the people. | Ken Follett | ||
| 357c9ba | A lark, caught in a hunter's net Sang sweeter then than ever, As if the falling melody Might wing and net dissever At dusk the hunter took his prey, The lark his freedom never. All birds and men are sure to die But songs may live forever. | death lark melody sad song songs-may-live-forever | Ken Follett | |
| a586ccd | If so, how do we feel about it?" "We are numb." | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 8158aa0 | Don't you think if I was able to make some changes, I would have already? | one-last-thing-before-i-go | Jonathan Tropper | |
| 92be128 | At our age, loneliness can seem so permanent. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| c0d615d | Rest stops have always made him strangely happy. He couldn't say why. Just the idea of everyone on their way somewhere, united by wanderlust, no one belonging more than anyone else. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 67b352b | But we are not going to talk about that right now, because to talk about it I'll have to think about it, and I've thought it to death over the last year. There are parts of my brain that are still tirelessly thinking about it, about her, an entire research and development department wholly dedicated to finding new ways to grieve and mourn and feel sorry for myself. And let me tell you, they're good at what they do down there. So I'll leave .. | grieving mourning sadness-lonelyness | Jonathan Tropper | |
| 7156507 | I'll tell you the same thing I told your father. We make mistakes. They don't make us. If they did, we'd all be royally fucked, especially a coupe of assholes like us." I grin at his last remark, and finally find some words to say, even though I'm not sure I possess the conciliatory feelings to match my town. "You could learn a lot from an asshole." Dugan smiles at that, and it's the first time I've ever seen him do it. "I guess so." | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 99571bd | A lot can go wrong in twelve hours. | Jonathan Tropper |