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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 75fe9d6 | A escrita e uma longa introspeccao, e uma viagem ate as cavernas mais obscuras da consciencia, uma lenta meditacao. Escrevo as apalpadelas no silencio e pelo caminho descubro particulas de verdade, pequenos cristais que cabem na palma da mao e justificam a minha passagem por este mundo.(...) | Isabel Allende | ||
| 2c03464 | En todas las clases sociales, menos las privilegiadas por el dinero, la abnegacion y el trabajo se consideran las maximas virtudes femeninas; el espiritu de sacrificio es una cuestion de honor, mientras mas sufren por la familia, mas orgullosas se sienten. Se acostumbran desde temprano a considerar al companero como un hijo bobalicon, a quien perdonan graves defectos, desde ebriedad hasta violencia domestica, porque es hombre. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 36060f9 | l`bd ldhy yrqS hw `bdun Hr Tlm hw yrqS | Isabel Allende | ||
| f73abaa | l ymkn llnsn 'n yHy dwn dhkryt . | Isabel Allende | ||
| fe0d0d4 | El hombre del amor calcinante, de los inventos eroticos, de la risa, las bromas y los juegos entre las sabanas, de la urgencia y la voracidad y la alegria, de las confidencias susurradas en la pausa entre dos abrazos, de los besos interminables y la intimidad mas delirante, ese hombre solo existia para ella. | Isabel Allende | ||
| e68ccc1 | Tenia la ternura torpe de quien nunca ha sido amado y debe improvisar. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 52c17f4 | The only cure for so much misfortune is love. It's not the force of gravity that keeps the universe in balance, but the binding power of love. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 5ef1a3b | km hw mmt` lHb ldhy yGfr kl shy | Isabel Allende | ||
| 7e2d480 | Era ella quien se abria como una sandia madura, roja, jugosa, tibia, ella quien sudaba esa fragancia penetrante de mariscos, ella quien lo mordia, lo aranaba, lo chupaba, gemia, agonizaba de sofoco y de placer. Era en su carne compasiva donde se sumergia hasta perder el aliento y volverse esponja, medusa, estrella de altamar. | love luxury sex | Isabel Allende | |
| 2bea513 | nature as a whole was an exceptionally fine illustration of science. | science | Yann Martel | |
| d49e592 | If you become sick yourself, don't waste your vomit by sending it overboard. Vomit makes an excellent border guard. Puke on the edges of your territory. | Yann Martel | ||
| 9bbc998 | What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell. | Yann Martel | ||
| fa761cc | Kalau kita, para warga negara, tidak memberikan dukungan kepada seniman-seniman kita, berarti kita telah mengorbankan imajinasi kita di altas realitas yang kejam, dan pada akhirnya kita jadi tidak percaya pada apapun, dan mimpi-mimpi kita tidak lagi berarti. | imajinasi mimpi percaya seniman warga-negara | Yann Martel | |
| 097ee0e | Strach to jedyny prawdziwy przeciwnik zycia. | Yann Martel | ||
| 847652d | I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful. | Yann Martel | ||
| f511e07 | The men nodded vigorously at me. When they took hold of me and lifted me in their strong arms, I thought nothing of it. I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts. | shipwrecks | Yann Martel | |
| 863a43b | But I want to pray to Allah. I want to be a Christian. | christianity life-of-pi religion | Yann Martel | |
| ec9770b | I'm just trying to help" "Do your uncle's bonsai eat meat?" "I don't think so" "Have you ever been bitten by one of his bonsai?" "No." "In that case, your uncle's bonsai are not helping us" | Yann Martel | ||
| fee0a2d | Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch of canvas that needed painting--that blend of anxiety, curiosity and joy that is at the origin of art--and he had filled the hole, answered the question, splashed colour on the canvas, all done for himself, because he had to. Then complete strangers told him that his book had filled a hole in them, had answered a question.. | book creativity curiosity inspirational joy life painting strangers writer writers-on-writing writing writing-life | Yann Martel | |
| 4f58a48 | I thought I would run out of paper. It was the pens that ran out. | Yann Martel | ||
| 12b056b | the senile, lecherous expression of a camel. | yann martel | ||
| 2fe8a5c | The reason death sticks do closely to life isn't biological necessity-it"s envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only an thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud." | Yann Martel | ||
| be8efaa | It begins in your mind, always. One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy. Doubt meets disbelief and disbelief tries to push it out. But disbelief is a poorly armed foot soldier. Doubt does away with with little trouble. You become anxious. Reason comes to do battle for you. You are reassured. Reason is fully equipped with the latest weapo.. | Yann Martel | ||
| 8e23b73 | A germ of religious exaltation, no bigger than a mustard seed. | Yann Martel | ||
| 8b1859e | Because of the gnawing feeling that no matter how hard they work their efforts will yield nothing, that what they build up in one year will be torn down in one day by others. | Yann Martel | ||
| 5a63898 | An epic simplicity | Yann Martel | ||
| 265f83d | Reason is my prophet and it tells me that as a watch stops, so we die. It's the end. If the watch doesn't work properly, it must be fixed here and now by us. | Yann Martel | ||
| df9bfe0 | It's a joke in the zoo business, a weary joke, that the paperwork involved in trading a shrew weighs more than an elephant, that the paperwork involved in trading an elephant weighs more than a whale, and that you must never try to trade a whale, never. | paperwork | Yann Martel | |
| 524c9e5 | Then Richard Parker, companion of my torment, awful, fierce thing that kept me alive, moved forward and disappeared forever from my life. | Yann Martel | ||
| 3dd5cc2 | I am careful never to talk about religion. Who am I to kick at people's crutches? | Yann Martel | ||
| 4f0acae | Nil magnum nisi bonum. No greatness without goodness. | Yann Martel | ||
| f59895a | These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil within that has been let out. | Yann Martel | ||
| 364d9d2 | The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous possessive love that grabs at it what it can. | Yann Martel | ||
| 7018ac8 | What don't we realize is that we are a strange and forbidding species to wild animals. We fill them with fear. They avoid us as much as possible. It took centuries to still the fear in some pliable animals - domestication it's called - but most cannot get over their fear, and I doubt they ever will. When wild animals fight us, it is out of sheer desperation. They fight when they feel they have no other way out. | Yann Martel | ||
| 39be6c7 | That's the great, enduring challenge of our modern times, is it not, to marry faith and reason? So hard--so unreasonable--to root our lives upon a distant wisp of holiness. Faith is grand but impractical: How does one live an eternal idea in a daily way? It's so much easier to be reasonable. Reason is practical, its rewards are immediate, its workings are clear. But alas, reason is blind. Reason, on its own, leads us nowhere, especially in .. | Yann Martel | ||
| 85c7be9 | The reward for the watching eye and listening ear is great. | Yann Martel | ||
| 84eba6a | If Christ played doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation." | Yann Martel | ||
| 79be7e7 | I must say a word about fear. It's is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. it begins in your mind, always. | Yann Martel | ||
| 4fd5381 | The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity-- it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, jealous possessive love that grabs what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but a passing shadow of a cloud. | Yann Martel | ||
| 3f7525e | each of them was better together than either of them could have been apart. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| 461132e | Dolphins love each other so romantically, so playfully, so completely, that it is obvious that they are sent by God to teach us by their example to do the same. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| c3da266 | Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away. | love | Louis de Bernières | |
| e4fe2a5 | In those days Great Britain was less wealthy than it is now, but it was also less complacent, and considerably less useless. It had a sense of humanitarian responsibility and a myth of its own importance that was quixotically true and universally accepted merely because it believed in it, and said so in a voice loud enough for foreigners to understand. It had not yet acquired the schoolboy habit of waiting for months for permission from Was.. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| b365757 | Thus the headstrong German Shepherd dog, Fritz, and Moritz, the Barbaryy ape, innocently and gallantly defending his mate, plunge Greece into a political void. | Louis de Bernières |