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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bddd61e | I think of childhood as the R&D stage of the species, concerned exclusively with learning and exploring. We adults are production and marketing. | Michael Pollan | ||
| e9bcb54 | S policy: "no snacks, no seconds, no sweets--except on days that begin with the letter S." | Michael Pollan | ||
| 5857215 | To sublime: to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state. To sublimate: to divert the expression of an instinctual desire or impulse from its primitive form to one that is considered more socially or culturally acceptable. Sublime: of outstanding spiritual, intellectual, or moral worth. | social | Rachel Klein | |
| d409bb0 | Whenever we tamper with natural laws, there are consequences," the count said. "The larger the disruption, the larger the consequence." | Maile Meloy | ||
| cc302b9 | My geography savors a delicious paradox: Home - a grounding - found in unearthly beauty. The predominant colors are blue, emerald, and terra-cotta. Every day, every season, I taste these colors and the intricate flavors of their unaccountable tones and hues. I have yet to earn this land. Perhaps I never will. Home is a religion. Sensibly you understand the need for it, yet not even sensible people can explain it. - from the Chapter "Finding.. | Ellen Meloy | ||
| 8315aa0 | I'm going to adopt you. You'd make a wonderful daughter. Hey, evil-minded future daughter number two. You heard Arkana. What do you think?" Grudgingly, Shukrat admitted, "I think she's right." "Excellent! Let's go ask your wicked future mother's opinion." We" | Glen Cook | ||
| 4614d66 | A gull planed steeply over their heads, a precarious flash of white against the windy blue sky. The short, hacking cry of a baby seemed to merge seamlessly for a moment with the gull's repetitive wail, as if they were one species. One species, Falkender thought, raucous and scavenging; one species calling out in pain. To be human is to be mixed and miscegenated like this. To be lost. | M. John Harrison | ||
| f6d83e2 | in the morning -- 'When the world looks promising again despite what we know about it' -- ... | M. John Harrison | ||
| d4eb58a | As they moved from exhibit to exhibit like reluctant tourists in some artist's studio, Buffin sat on a stool with his limbs tense. He was like an exhibit himself in the direct odd light filtering through the whitish panes, legs wound tensely round one another, his face like an apologetic bag. | M. John Harrison | ||
| 9cdd2f0 | Well Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don't tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist-- and I really believe he is Antichrist--I will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my 'faithful slave', as you call yourself! But how are you? I see I have frightened you--sit down a.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 064b0b0 | Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, | leo tolstoy | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 06e185f | If you grew up in a rural area, you have seen how farmhouses come and go, but the dent left by cellars is permanent. There is something unbreakable in that hand-dug foundational gouge into the earth. Books are the cellars of civilization: when cultures crumble away, their books remain out of sheer stupid solidity. | Paul Collins | ||
| 6c66ba5 | Generally, when a man is rabidly for one cause, and then is just as rabidly for another cause, it is not because he loves the cause: it is because he loves the rabies | Paul Collins | ||
| bc62386 | Leo Tolstoy wrote: "One can live magnificently in this world, if one knows how to work and how to love, to work for the person one loves and to love one's work."19" | Jonathan Haidt | ||
| 3f08fa8 | wHd lnby mHmd qby'l l`rb w'nr 'fkrhm w'bSrhm bm`rf@ llh lwHd hdhb 'khlfhm wlyn Tb`hm wqlwbhm w'SlH `dthm lbrbry@ lhmjy@ wj`lhm 'm@ mst`d@ llrqy wltqdm. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| e7fca4f | When it comes down to it, it's your happiness that's most important. | Maki Murakami | ||
| 7f78c41 | What's this "rough life of a novelist" bullshit? You sound like an idiot. You're a writer. At least give yourself better lines." | Maki Murakami | ||
| 6f45f69 | Come on, hurry up and aim your .44 Magnum at my pink flowerbed. Oh, come on, let's not talk pistols when you know it's a bazooka. | Maki Murakami | ||
| 049ce38 | No se donde nos han ensenado que socorrer al desvalido equivale a apartarlo de las garras de la muerte a cualquier precio. | Mario Bellatin | ||
| 6c1ded9 | Never trust a woman's tears, Alyosha. I am never for the woman in such cases. I am always on the side of the men. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| ece5683 | flns yshbhwn l'nhr yjry lm fyh jmy`an , Gyr 'n 'Hdh ykwn mstqyman fy mkn m wmt`rjan fy akhr , ws`an wDyqan . Sfy lm w`krh , ftran wbrdan whkdh sh'n lbshr , fhm yHmlwn fy dkhlhm bdhwr lfDy'l wlrdhy'l , fTwran ttGlb hdhh w Twran ttGlb tlk | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 34e73d2 | Ali ljudi - veliki, odrasli ljudi - nisu prestajali da varaju i muce sami sebe i jedan drugoga. Ljudi su drzali da nije sveto i vazno to proljetno jutro, ni ta krasota svijeta bozjega stvorena za dobro svim bicima - krasota koja pozivlje za mir, slogu i ljubav - nego je sveto i vazno ono sto su izmislili oni sami da bi vladali jedan nad drugim | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| bb58627 | All books are hyggelig, but classics written by authors such as Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Leo Tolstoy, and Charles Dickens have a special place on the bookshelf. At the right age, your kids may also love to cuddle up with you in the hyggekrog and have you read to them. Probably not Tolstoy. | Meik Wiking | ||
| f43ac01 | lm tkn bHj@ lttsl : lma kn hn . knt t`lm Hq l`lm , km lw 'nh hw ldhy 'nb'h bdhlk, 'nh kn hn lykwn Hyth tkwn . | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 75a5f4c | n lmr@ qd tkhd` 'shd lns dh wdhk , lkn 'shd lTfl Gb yktshfh wyu`rD `nh, mhm 'khfyt bbr`@ | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 2c9d5c1 | But when, as is most often the case, the husband and wife accept the external obligation to live together all their lives and have, by the second month, come to loathe the sight of each other, want to get divorced and yet go on living together, it usually ends in that terrible hell that drives them to drink, makes them shoot themselves, kill and poison each other | love marriage murder problems | Leo Tolstoy | |
| f044d7b | They abolish the external form, they suppress the formal sales of slaves, and then they imagine and assure others that slavery is abolished. They are unwilling to see that it still exists, since people, as before, like to profit by the labor of others, and think it good and just. This being given, there will always be found beings stronger or more cunning than others to profit thereby. The same thing happens in the emancipation of woman. At.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 1e12170 | One man may not kill. If he kills a fellow-creature, he is a murderer. If two, ten, a hundred men do so, they, too, are murderers. But a government or a nation may kill as many men as it chooses, and that will not be murder, but a great and noble action. Only gather the people together on a large scale, and a battle of ten thousand men becomes an innocent action. But precisely how many people must there be to make it so?--that is the questi.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 51d2f27 | I damned myself for my earlier romanticism. That Croaker who had come north, so thoroughly bemused by the mysterious Lady, was another man. A stripling, filled with the foolish ignorances of youth. Yeah. Sometimes you lie to yourself just to keep going. | youth | Glen Cook | |
| b70c0b1 | To take the simplest example: one man laughs, and another, who hears, becomes merry; or a man weeps, and another, who hears, feels sorrow. A man is excited or irritated, and another man, seeing him, comes to a similar state of mind. By his movements, or by the sounds of his voice, a man expresses courage and determination, or sadness and calmness, and this state of mind passes on to others. A man suffers, expressing his sufferings by groans.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| ea5341f | I do not live when I loose belief in the existence of God. I should long ago have killed myself had I not had a dim hope of finding Him. I live really live only when I feel him and seek Him | god meaning-of-life suicide | Leo Tolstoy | |
| a1f38ea | n lrd@ lTyb@ l tDyf bSl@ wHd@ l~ lHs, wh~ l tSlH l lldhhb l~ ljn@ | Victor Hugo | ||
| 17c8540 | I make little account of victory. Nothing is so stupid as to vanquish; the real glory is to convince. | might-is-right winning-people-over | Victor Hugo | |
| f1a7f13 | Answer me two more questions,' said the King. 'The first is, Why did the earth bear such grain then and has ceased to do so now? And the second is, Why your grandson walks with two crutches, your son with one, and you yourself with none? Your eyes are bright, your teeth sound, and your speech clear and pleasant to the ear. How have these things come about?' | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 52a97a2 | Father,' he asked, 'are rich people stronger than anyone else on earth?' 'Yes Ilusha,' I said, 'there are no people on earth stronger than the rich. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 772dac7 | there was apparent in all a sort of anxiety, a softening of the heart, and a consciousness of some great, unfathomable mystery being accomplished... the most solemn mystery in the world was being accomplished. Evening passed, night came on. And the feeling of suspense and softening of the heart before the unfathomable did not wane, but grew more intense. No one slept. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 80791ac | You know, when children are silent and proud, and they try to keep back their tears when they are in great trouble and suddenly break down, their tears fall in streams. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 859f249 | Running beer gathers no foam. | Victor Hugo | ||
| d087ffd | n llh ldhy kn yfn yrfD 'n yw'mn bh yfrD nfsh lan l~ wjdn yfn,wn lHqyq@ llhy@ tshq Tryqh `l~ hwnin l~ qlbh ldhy m zl `Syan | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 153efb0 | 'khy ! ..'khy ! .Sdyqy ! ..mdhl hw lnsn Ht~ lywm ! , rhyb hw mSyr lnsn ! shdyd@ hy alm lnsn ! l tHsbn l'n ly rtb@ DbT 'nny mrw' fZ GlyZ lqlb l y`nyh l 'n yshrb lkwnyk w'n ytldhdh blns ! nny fy lwq` l 'fkr l fy mSyr lbshr ldhy yd`w l~ lshfq@ wl`Tf wlrth , dhlk hw htmmy lwHyd tqryb wm 'n bkdhb `lyk lbt@ , 'l fltshhd lsm 'ny l 'kdhb wl 'tbhy fy hdhh llHZ@ , n lmSyr lfj` ldhy ktb `l~ lbshr y`dhbny t`dhyb shdyd l'nny 'n nfsy wHd mn hw'l l'shqy l.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| f32ed03 | Believe that God loves you so as you cannot conceive of it; even with your sin and in your sin he loves you. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| a74a264 | An angel in heaven I've told already; but I want to tell an angel on earth. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 046f843 | His malice was aimed at himself; with shame and contempt he recollected his "cowardice." | raskolnikov | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 308fd63 | I believed, I believe, I want to believe, and I will believe | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |