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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b9a4a07 | I wonder what we look for when we embark on these kinds of trips. There is the pat answer that you tell the people you don't know: that you're interested in seeing a place, learning about its people. But then the trip begins and the hardship comes, and hardship is more honest: it tells us that we don't have enough patience yet, nor humility, nor gratitude. And we thought that we did. Hardship brings us closer to truth, and thus is more diff.. | Kira Salak | ||
| 83a4cbd | Citizenship of a democratic state means living by the laws of the country. A liberal democracy cannot survive when part of the population believes that divine laws trump those made by man. | Ian Buruma | ||
| 7e502df | Despite his first, the study of English literature seemed in retrospect an absorbing parlor game, and reading books and having opinions about them, the desirable adjunct to a civilized existence. But it was not the core, whatever Dr. Leavis said in his lectures. | Ian McEwan | ||
| a385565 | This unreal feeling was heightened when, after half an hour, she reached another High Street, more or less the same as the one she had left behind. That was all London was beyond its center, an agglomeration of dull little towns. She made a resolution never to live in any of them. | Ian McEwan | ||
| acbcbf1 | People have never had a problem disposing of the past when it gets too difficult. Flesh will burn, photos will burn, and memory, what is that? | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 298c9dd | A piece like a segment has been cut out of the back of his head. The sun looks in and the whole world with it. It makes him nervous, it distracts him from his work, and moreover it irritates him that he should be the very one excluded from the spectacle. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 1d3dac5 | Jemand musste Josef K. verleumdet haben, denn ohne dass er etwas Boses getan hatte, wurde er eines Morgens verhaftet. | Franz Kafka | ||
| a0f4f83 | I had to arrange things as well as I could. That's obviously a very bad place for the bed, in front of the door. For instance when the judge I'm painting at present comes he always comes through the door by the bed, and I've even given him a key to this door so that he can wait for me here in the studio when I'm not home. Although nowadays he usually comes early in the morning when I'm still asleep. And of course, it always wakes me up when.. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 7a52a07 | Cascar una nuez no es realmente un arte, y en consecuencia nadie se atreveria a congregar un auditorio para entretenerle cascando nueces. Pero si lo hace y logra su proposito, entonces ya no se trata meramente de cascar nueces. O tal vez se trate meramente de cascar nueces, pero entonces descubrimos que nos hemos despreocupado totalmente de dicho arte porque lo dominabamos demasiado, y este nuevo cascador de nueces nos muestra por primera v.. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 07449af | Mientras estaba tendido alli, a un paso de mi yacia un escarabajo, patas arriba, desesperado. No podia enderezarse, me habria gustado ayudarlo, era tan facil hacerlo, bastaba un paso y un empujoncito para brindarle una ayuda efectiva. Pero lo olvide a causa de la carta. Ademas no podia ponerme de pie. Por fin, una lagartija logro que volviera a tomar conciencia de la vida que me rodeaba. Su camino la llevo hasta el escarabajo, que ya estaba.. | spanish | Franz Kafka | |
| f534fb2 | The main thing holding the family back from a change in living quarters was far more their complete hopelessness and the idea that they had been struck by a misfortune like no one else in their entire circle of relatives and acquaintances. | Franz Kafka | ||
| b2595fb | Common consensus is not thought but wishful thinking. | Ernst Pawel | ||
| 7c367dc | Tinh ban that la ky. Khi yeu, nguoi ta noi den tinh yeu. Giua nhung nguoi ban chan chinh voi nhau, nguoi ta khong noi den tinh ban. Tinh ban, nguoi ta ket ban ma khong can phai goi ten hay binh pham gi ve no. Manh me va yen ang. No kin dao. Ran roi. Do la su lang man cua nhung nguoi dan ong. Chac no phai sau sac va ben vung hon tinh yeu de nguoi ta khong vung vai no mot cach ngo ngan bang ngon tu, tuyen bo, tho van. No phai dem lai su thoa .. | Franz Kafka | ||
| e382c54 | In the morning and in the evening and at night in his dreams, this street was filled with constantly bustling traffic, which seen from above seemed like a continually self-replenishing mixture of distorted human figures and of the roofs of all sorts of vehicles, constantly scattered by new arrivals, out of which there arose a new, stronger, wilder mixture of noise, dust, and smells, and, catching and penetrating it all, a powerful light tha.. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 5999790 | Es perfectamente imaginable que el esplendor de la vida esta dispuesto, siempre en toda plenitud, alrededor de cada uno, pero cubierto de un velo, en las profundidades, invisible muy lejos. Sin embargo esta ahi, no hostil, no a disgusto, no sordo, viene si uno lo llama con la palabra correcta, por su nombre correcto, Es la esencia de la magia, que no crea, sino llama. | magic possibility | Franz Kafka | |
| 567c4ed | We can't carry on like this. Maybe you can't see it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I can say is: we have to try and get rid of it. | Franz Kafka | ||
| cd992fd | Extraordinary,' said the Burgomaster, 'extraordinary. And now do you think of staying here in Riva with us?' | Franz Kafka | ||
| b4d2ffb | One learns when one has to; one learns when one needs a way out; one learns at all costs. One stands over oneself with a whip; one flays oneself at the slightest opposition. | Franz Kafka | ||
| bd0f81d | Oh, bother | Franz Kafka | ||
| 1c725cc | Seen with the terrestrially sullied eye, we are in a situation of travelers in a train that has met with an accident in a tunnel, and this at a place where the light of the beginning can no longer be seen, and the light of the end is so very small a glimmer that the gaze must continually search for it and is always losing it again, and, furthermore, both the beginning and the end are not even certainties. Round about us, however, in the con.. | Franz Kafka | ||
| ca59874 | If you were walking across a plain, had an honest intention of walking on, and yet kept regressing, then it would be a desperate matter; but since you are scrambling up a cliff, about as steep as you yourself are if seen from below, the regression can only be caused by the nature of the ground, and you must not despair. | franz kafka | ||
| 20ee9dd | What are our lungs supposed to do?" I shouted. Shouted: "If they breathe fast they suffocate themselves from inner poisons; if they breathe slowly they suffocate from unbreathable air, from outraged things. But if they try to search for their own rhythm they perish from the mere search." | Franz Kafka | ||
| b4bd8d0 | In our folk nobody has any experience of youth, there's barely even any time for being a toddler. The children simply don't have any time in which they might be children........Indeed... there's simply no way that we would be able to provide our children with a viable childhood, one that is real. Naturally, there are consequences. There's a certain ever present, not to be liquidated childishness that permeates our folk; We often act in ways.. | grown-ups maturity | Franz Kafka | |
| 91916ff | In her opinion her singing falls on deaf ears anyway; there is no lack of enthusiasm and applause, but she has long since given up hope of genuine understanding as she conceives it. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 3ac0d2e | Don't look at him!" he snapped, without noticing how odd it was to speak to free men in this way" | Franz Kafka | ||
| 4c20e17 | Yet Gregor's sister was playing so beautifully. Her face was leant to one side, following the lines of music with a careful and melancholy expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his | Franz Kafka | ||
| 945b3bf | The man from the country has not expected such difficulties; the law, he thinks, should be accessible to everyone and at all times; but as he now takes a closer look at the doorkeeper in his fur coat, at his large pointed nose, his long, sparse, black Tartar beard, he decides that it is better, after all, to wait until he receives permission to enter. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 0dd4629 | my joints ache with fatigue, my dried up body trembles toward its own destruction in turmoils of which I dare not become fully conscious, in my head are astonishing convulsions. | diary franz-kafka | Franz Kafka | |
| 2f057d7 | In the struggle between yourself and the world, second the world. (Im Kampf zwischen Dir und der Welt, sekundiere der Welt) | bet franz franz-kafka kafka max-brody struggle unpublished world zurau | Franz Kafka | |
| a9ce3ec | Am I to leave this world as a man who shies away from all conclusions? | nihilism post-modernism | Franz Kafka | |
| 45357fa | lw 'mknny 'n 'stGrq fy lnwm km 'Grq fy khwfy `ly hdh lnHw fln 'kwn Hyny'dh `ly qyd lHy@ | Franz Kafka | ||
| 785e586 | The amount of quiet I need does not exist in the world, from which it follows that no one ought to need so much quiet. | Franz Kafka | ||
| d0940a8 | All I did there, after all, was to bemoan what I could not bemoan upon your breast. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 4c2c5b5 | Leo en Dostoievski el pasaje que tanto se asemeja a ser desdichado | kafka | Franz Kafka | |
| 985a004 | All right then, I'll be mad at you on this score, which incidentally is no great misfortune, as things balance out quite well if there's a little anger for you lurking in one corner of my heart. | letters-to-milena love-hurts | Franz Kafka | |
| 84c93e8 | l'lm ykmn fy SdGy mtrbSan, fhl knt nbl@ kywbyd qd Swbt fy tjh SdGy bdlan mn tSwybh nHw qlby | Franz Kafka | ||
| 3095a73 | tqdt mrdm mfhwmy ndrnd, anhyy kh z bly psht bmh z shdy fryd my znnd, m`mwl z hmh Gmgyn trnd | Milan Kundera | ||
| 6e14de0 | Of course, these were only dreams. How could a sensible woman leave a happy marriage? All the same, a seductive voice from afar kept breaking into her conjugal peace: it was the voice of solitude. | marriage solitude spinster | Milan Kundera | |
| 265ca50 | nZr! nSf hw'l ldhyn trhm `l~ l'ql qbyHwn! 'n ykwn lmr qbyHan! hl hdh 'yDan jz mn Hqwq lnsn? whl t`rf 'nh yHml qbHh Tyl@ Hyth? dwn 'y@ rH@? jnsk 'yDan, 'nt lm tkhtrh. wlm tkhtr lwn `ynyk wl lqrn ldh~ tHy fyh. wl bldk. wl 'mk. l '~ shy' mhm. lHqwq lt~ ymkn 'n yHSl `lyh nsn l tt`lq l btfht wlys thm@ sbb llSr` Hwlh 'w ktb@ `lnt shhyr@ `nh. | Milan Kundera | ||
| dc48286 | hl tsmH l~ 'n 'ndyk bl'Hmq? 'jl, l tGDb, 'nt 'Hmq br'yy. whl t`rf mSdr Hmqtk? nh Tybtk! Tybtk lmthyr@ llskhry@! | Milan Kundera | ||
| 7547560 | taGayWra lwD`, wfhm lSHfywn b'n TrH l'sy'l@ lys fqT Tryq@an l`ml Sn` lrybwrtj ldhy ytb` btwD` tHqyq m mmskan bmfkrth fy ydh, bl Tryq@ lmmrs@ lslT@ Hqan, lys lSHfy hw mn yTrH l'sy'l@, bl hw lshkhS ldhy ymlk lHq lmqds bTrHh , wbiTrHih `l~ 'yWi kn, wHwl 'y mwDw`in kn. wltqwm slT@ lSHfy `l~ Hq TrH lsw'l bl `l~ Hq lmTlb@ bijwb | Milan Kundera | ||
| a316d65 | ql bwl ldh~ kn `l~ 'Hsn m yrm : - nk trtkb khT' shy'`an `ndm tnZr llmwt km's@. 'jb ldb l'shhb bnbr@ ftr@ : - '`trfu 'nn~ nZrt dy'm llmwt km's@. ql bwl : - hdh hw lkhT' .. fHdth@ lqTr fZy`@ blnsb@ l~ mn ystqlWh , 'w mn y`lm 'n bnh stqlh, lkn llmwt f~ l'khbr ldh`y@ lm`n~ nfsh ldh~ ttkhdhh f~ rwyt 'jth kryst~ , hdhh lktb@ lt~ t`dW 'kbr sHr@ `l~ mrW l'zmn , l'nh `rft kyf tHwWl lqtl l~ tsly@ , lys fqT qtlan wHdan , bl my't mn jry'm lqtl lmtsl.. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 25206f1 | 'sm` 'khbr lSbH w 'n blkd 'myz lklmt, thm 'Gfw mn jdyd bHyth ttHwl ljml lty 'sm`h l~ 'Hlm nh 'jml mrHl lnwm w '`dhb lHZt lnhr ! | Milan Kundera | ||
| 8686fc1 | not even one's own pain weigh so heavy as the pain one feels with someone , for someone | Milan Kundera |