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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3d18a47 | tjwzt md@ ltmthyly@ lmrtjl@ lHdwd. kn frnz yjd 'n hdhh lmlh@ (lty kn yqrW b'nh sHr@ `l~ kl Hl) qd Tlt 'kthr mn llzm. f'msk lqb`@ lrjly@ byn 'Sb`yh wntz`h `n r's sbyn whw ybtsm, thm `lqh fwq lq`d@. . kn l'mr kmn ymHw shrbyn rsmhm wld `fryt `l~ Swr@ mrym l`dhr. | sex psychological political religion love philosophy جنس friedrich-nietzche milan-kundera neitzsche اجتماع كائن-لا-تحتمل-خفته ميلان-كونديرا نيتشه علم-نفس فلسفة فلسفة-حياة religion-and-philoshophy حب philosophy-of-life friedrich-nietzsche sociology novel psychology | ميلان كونديرا | |
| 1805996 | She knew only too well that the song was a beautiful lie. As soon as kitsch is recognized for the lie it is, it moves into the context of non-kitsch, thus losing its authoritarian power and becoming as touching as any other human weakness. For none among us is superman enough to escape kitsch completely. No matter how we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition. | human beauty authoritarian kitsch human-condition reveal weakness lie power | Milan Kundera | |
| 5a383c8 | m 't`s Hy@ lmr Hyn l ystTy` 'n y'khdh shyy'an `l~ mHml ljd , w l Ht~ 'Hdan ! . | Milan Kundera | ||
| fa3e68b | Jaromil had always regarded the future as an awesome mystery. It comprised everything unknown, and for that reason it lured and terrified. It was the opposite of certainty, the opposite of home. | Milan Kundera | ||
| d713e2c | When we study, discuss, analyze a reality, we analyze it as it appears in our mind, in our memory. We know reality only in the past tense. We do not know it as it is in the present, in the moment when it's happening, when it is. The present moment is unlike the memory of it. Remembering is not the negative of forgetting. Remembering is a form of forgetting. [...] We die without knowing what we have lived. | present time memory | Milan Kundera | |
| 004e4e6 | Tereza keeps appearing before my eyes. I see her sitting on the stump petting Karenin's head and ruminating on mankind's debacles. Another image also comes to mind: Nietzsche leaving his hotel in Turin. Seeing a horse and a coachman beating it with a whip, Nietzsche went up to the horse and, before the coachman's very eyes, put his arms around the horse's neck and burst into tears. That took place in 1889, when Nietzsche, too, had removed h.. | dogs-and-humans existentialism nietzsche descartes | Milan Kundera | |
| d2e18f9 | La unica constante en este mundo es la mierda, muchacho. | Paul Auster | ||
| 0894b6b | My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre? | philosophy nausea jean-paul-sartre | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| 9dab103 | A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party. | Max Frisch | ||
| 4c07714 | Siakash se sgromoliasvash prez ogledalo, kogato se s'budish, nishcho drugo ne pomnish, siakash se sgromoliasvash prez vsichki ogledala, a setne svet't otnovo se sglobiava, vse edno nishcho ne se e sluchilo. A i nishcho ne se e sluchilo. | Max Frisch | ||
| 8d15834 | I eto che posle, dokato drugiiat veche spi, chertaete planove, kakvito si praviat zatvornitsite, eto che noshchem ste resheni na vsiakak'v obrat, na biagstvo, dr'zki i vdetineni, i ne ot strast, a ot kopnezh po strast, eto, che stiagate kufarite. | Max Frisch | ||
| 3649bdb | We don't see the world as a botanist who is at the same time an architect, a physician, a geologist, and a ship's captain. Recognizing isn't at all like seeing; the two often don't even agree... | paintings perception | Sten Nadolny | |
| 4eca0c7 | Learning and seeing are more important than education. | seeing learning | Sten Nadolny | |
| e870e76 | To talk about the senselessness of the battle was to attribute sense to war itself. | war senselessness | Sten Nadolny | |
| 500781c | The goal had been important only for the sake of finding the path to it. | path | Sten Nadolny | |
| bd1d904 | It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favourite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party. | Nick Hornby | ||
| c3c8b30 | I didn't say anything. But I could have pointed out that most life-changing says happen without your expecting them. I have spent what seems like half my life expecting the worst. And it never happens. But on the day it does, it will knock me flat on my back anyway. | not-a-star | Nick Hornby | |
| 59f8949 | You don't know anything, apart from what you read in the paper." "You seem to be the only person in the world that the papers get bang to rights. If they say you've slept with a fifteen-year-old, you have. If they say you've fallen over drunk in the street, you have. They don't need to invent stuff for you." This was actually quite an acute observation. She was right: not once have I been the victim of misrepresentation or distortion. If .. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 91b954d | I'm equally sure, however, that I won't walk into a lamp-post while reading {literature}, like I did with {a legal thriller} all those years ago; you don't walk into lamp-posts when you're reading literary novels, do you? | Nick Hornby | ||
| 390be2b | When I'm arguing with St. Peter at the Pearly Gates, I'm going to tell him to ignore the Books Read column, and focus on the Books Bought instead. "This is *really* who I am," I'll tell him." -- | Nick Hornby | ||
| 399828b | I am a rationalist, and I don't believe in genies, or sudden personality changes. I wanted David's anger to vanish only after years and years in therapy. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 094b98a | he was disappointed that he'd never quite added up to as much as the results of his own calculations. The trouble was that he'd got his sums all wrong, but she didn't want to be the one to tell him that. | Nick Hornby | ||
| c97174b | What was happening here? He decided that children were what was happening here; that children served as a symbolic blemish, like a birthmark or obesity, which gave him a chance where previously there would have been none. Maybe children beautiful single women. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 5911c3f | So the whole conversation is going right off course. It's like a supermarket trolley with a wonky wheel, because all the time I'm thinking, this should be easy to push along, and everything I say just takes me in the wrong direction. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 7fc9d93 | Malk'lm zam'lcha. Ani znaeshe, che terapevtite izpolzvat takava tekhnika - ako m'lchat dostat'chno d'lgo, nakraia obekt't na terapiiata shche izkreshchi: "Spakh s bashcha mi!", i vsichki shche se razotidat dovolni." | Nick Hornby | ||
| 7c20097 | She didn't think she'd ever shown enough gratitude for the quick wits of the people she worked with, and if the evening ever ended, which it showed no signs of doing, she would rectify that. She would buy them all flowers or whisky and write a card thanking them for being so clever. | Nick Hornby | ||
| d1a5826 | In other words, it is impossible: we cannot function properly, and the evening ends in confusion and awkwardness, and very early. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 51ffc82 | So there we have it. I get up in the morning determined to do something approximating to the right thing, and with in two hours find something to feel guilty about. | Nick Hornby | ||
| efadb14 | You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in, in the hope that you might be lucky, and the knife has actually been staunching the blood. You want to know the conventional medical wisdom? The conventional medical wisdom is that you keep the knife in. Really. | science life wisdom survival | Nick Hornby (Author) | |
| fb880a2 | Influential books are often a disappointment, if they're properly influential, because influence cannot guarantee the quality of the imitators, and your appetite for the original has been partially sated by its poor copies. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 2aad479 | Effectively we become the DVD of Elf that you ignore at nine o'clock on a Friday night, on the presumption there will be something better (at least, something more fulfilling, more complex, and that you haven't seen twice before) on the shelves somewhere. And guess what you end up going home with? Well, that's what we are to these beautiful, fantastic women: Elves. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 832d1e1 | So this is supposed to be the how, and when, and why, and what or reading - about the way that, when reading is going well, one book leads to another and to another, a paper trail of theme and meaning; and how, when it's going badly, when books don't stick or take, when your mood and the mood of the book are fighting like cats, you'd rather do anything but attempt the next paragraph, or reread the last one for the tenth time. "We talked abo.. | Nick Hornby | ||
| e1d8c1c | Ponekad kondomi stvarno ali stvarno sprecavaju zacece. Ukoliko ste lik koji ih uvek nosi sa sobom onda niko nece hteti sa vama da spava. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 75f234b | And if I went back to sleep and slept for forty years and woke up without any teeth to the sound of Melody Radio in an old people's home, I wouldn't worry that much, because the worst of life, i.e., the rest of it, would be over. And I wouldn't even have had to kill myself. | Nick Hornby | ||
| baae290 | I can't tell you how good and bad I felt. Yes I can: I felt like a baked Alaska. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 2994523 | They already knew that they would be telling people about the morning for a long time to come, maybe for the rest of their lives, and the taxi ride was the first attempt at a first draft of a story that would have to satisfy parents, siblings, children, and grandchildren. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 46dfb46 | The difference between sex with David and sex with Stephen is like the difference between science and art. With Stephen it's all empathy and imagination and exploration and the shock of the new, and the outcome is... uncertain, if you know what I mean. I'm engaged by it, but I', mot necessarily sure what its all about. David, on the other hand, presses this button, then that one, and bingo! It's like operating a lift - just as romantic, but.. | sex | Nick Hornby | |
| 579448d | One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 31473bd | Marcus was difficult simply because he frequently gave the impression that he was merely stopping off on this planet on his way to somewhere else, somewhere he might fit in better. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 66e5acd | He was hoping that when this was all over, his spiritual overdraft would have been paid off, and he'd be allowed to use the cash machine again. | Nick Hornby | ||
| df9fa91 | You just...you just don't do anything. You get lost in your head, and you sit around thinking instead of getting on with something, and most of the time you think rubbish. You always seem to miss what's really happening. Do you know that expression, 'Time on his hands and himself on his mind'? That's you. So what should I be doing? I don't know. Something. Working. Seeing people. Running a scout troop, or running a club even. Something mor.. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 073541a | But somehow, there's less time to think since she came back. We're too busy talking, or working, or having sex (there's a lot of sex at the moment, much of it initiated by me as a way of banishing insecurity), or eating, or going to the pictures. Maybe I should stop doing these things, so as I can work it all out properly, because I know these things are important times. But then again, maybe I shouldn't; maybe this is how it's done. Maybe .. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 3128f0e | Needless to say, drink, drugs, food, and sex played no part in the festivities. But who needs any of that when you've got literature? | Nick Hornby | ||
| 4710eff | See, I've always been afraid of marriage because of, you know, ball and chain, I want my freedom, all that. But when I was thinking about that stupid girl I suddenly saw it was the opposite: that if you got married to someone you know you love, and you sort yourself out, it frees you up for other things. | Nick Hornby |