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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8d1a8f0 | l`m~ ms'l@ khS@ byn lfrd w`ynyh lltyn khlq bhm | José Saramago | ||
| ad5d18a | Jesus wiped his tears on the back of his hand, blew his nose, who knows where, and yes, there is no point spending the whole day here, the desert is what it is, it surrounds us, in some ways protects us, but when it comes to giving, it gives us nothing, it simply looks on, and when the sun suddenly clouds over, so that we find ourselves thinking, The sky mirrors our sorrow, we are being foolish, because the sky is quite impartial and neithe.. | José Saramago | ||
| 4701a48 | Just two tears. That's all life is worth. | José Saramago | ||
| f528131 | e e possivel que esta noite, depois de jantar, abra a suite de bach sobre o atril, respire fundo e roce com o arco as cordas para que a primeira nota nascida o venha consolar das incorrigiveis banalidades do mundo e a segunda as faca esquecer | José Saramago | ||
| dc3bb68 | that is what we say when we do not wish to play the weakling, we say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands, a phenomenon that has only been observed in the human species. | José Saramago | ||
| afe3c7e | Death isn't catching either, yet nevertheless we all die. | José Saramago | ||
| 9950c42 | In all souls, as in all houses, beyond the facade lies a hidden interior. --RAUL BRANDAO | José Saramago | ||
| 2e6479b | the doves, as we know, must be killed according to the law before Mary's purification can be acknowledged and ratified. Any ironic or irreverent disciple of Voltaire will find it difficult to resist making the obvious remark that, things being what they are, purity can be maintained only so long as there are innocent creatures to sacrifice in this world, whether turtledoves, lambs, or others. | purity | José Saramago | |
| 86244c3 | You do not know, you cannot know, what it means to have eyes in a world in which everyone else is blind, I am not a queen, no, I am simply the one who was born to see this horror, you can feel it, I both feel and see it. | José Saramago | ||
| 4ea493f | n lHkym hw Hkym bqdr m ytHl~ bh mn Hdhr | José Saramago | ||
| 9cd5ae5 | But why sacrifice Your own son's life for so little, surely all You have to do is send a prophet. The time when people listened to prophets has passed, nowadays one must administer stronger medicine, shock treatment, to touch men's hearts and stir their feelings. Such as a son of God hanging from a cross. Yes, why not. | José Saramago | ||
| b01af81 | whether in peace or in war, man generally speaking is the best thing that ever happened to the gods. | José Saramago | ||
| 04cf9f3 | lqd t`lmt fy hdhh lmhn@ 'n ldhyn y'mrwn l ytjwzwn fqT mnsmyh nHn mHl,bl 'nhm 'yD ystfydwn mnh l`rql@ lw`y wbd@ l`ql | José Saramago | ||
| 97793f2 | Mas ha entre os nossos portugueses muita sede de martirio, muito apetite de sacrificio, muita fome de abnegacao... | José Saramago | ||
| 3d877dd | Sao coisas que nao se sabem explicar, como, sendo as pessoas feitas das mesmas humanissimas materias, esta carne, estes ossos, este sangue, esta pele e este riso, este suor e esta lagrima, vemos que saem uns cobardes e outros sem medo, uns de guerra e outros de paz. | José Saramago | ||
| ba8ea5f | it seems you don't understand that words are the labels we stick on things, not the things themselves, you'll never know what the things are really like, nor even what their real names are, because the names you gave them are just that, the names you gave them [...] | words | José Saramago | |
| 107a97a | l'n l`dl yfrD `lyW tqdym lshkr,l'nn l nltqy fy kl ywm bshkhS yTmy'nn blm`lwm@ lrHym@ b'nh l yryd lHq lDrr bn. | José Saramago | ||
| d8602b3 | lmr l yHtj lky ymwt lW 'n ykwn Hyan | José Saramago | ||
| 07312f2 | e o pior de tudo talvez nem sejam as palavras ditas e os actos praticados, o pior, porque e irremediavel definitivamente, e o gesto que nao fiz, a palavra que nao disse, aquilo que teria dado sentido ao feito e ao dito, Se um morto se inquieta tanto, a morte nao e sossego, Nao ha sossego no mundo, nem para os mortos nem para os vivos, Entao onde esta a diferenca entre uns e outros, A diferenca e uma so, os vivos ainda tem tempo, mas o mesmo.. | José Saramago | ||
| 7ec7289 | Sou o rei deste reino, e os barcos do reino pertencem-me todos, Mais lhes pertenceras tu a eles do que eles a ti, Que queres dizer, perguntou o rei, inquieto, Que tu, sem eles, es nada, e que eles, sem ti, poderao sempre navegar. | José Saramago | ||
| 5deb155 | n l'`m~ l'sw' hw dhlk ldhy lm yrd 'n yftH `ynyh. | José Saramago | ||
| 72a3f51 | A morte conhece tudo a nosso respeito, e talvez por isso seja triste. Se e certo que nunca sorri, e so porque lhe faltam os labios, e esta licao anatomica nos diz que, ao contrario do que os vivos julgam, o sorriso nao e uma questao de dentes. | José Saramago | ||
| 7020c27 | La esperanza es como la sal, no alimenta pero da sabor al pan. | esperança hope vida | José Saramago | |
| e0c1ee6 | He had grown so accustomed to feeling tired that he took a certain pleasure in it, the pleasure of someone who has given up, the pleasure of someone who, when the moment of truth arrives, turns back the clock and says: "It's too early." The pleasure of self-sacrifice. But sacrifice is only complete when it is kept hidden from view; making it visible is tantamount to saying, "Look at me, look how self-sacrificing I am," and making sure that .. | self-sacrifice | José Saramago | |
| 9afc3a5 | He aprendido en este oficio que los que mandan no solo no se detienen ante lo que nosotros llamamos absurdos, sino que se sirven de ellos para entorpecer la consciencia y aniquilar la razon. | José Saramago | ||
| 81d5750 | Perche siamo diventati ciechi, Non lo so, forse un giorno si arrivera a conoscerne la ragione, Vuoi che ti dica cosa penso, Parla, Secondo me non siamo diventati ciechi, secondo me lo siamo, Ciechi che vedono, Ciechi che, pur vedendo, non vedono. | essere-umano spirito vedere vista | José Saramago | |
| e18bb92 | Somewhere on the world was the Emperor's palace, set amid one hundred square miles of natural soil, rainbowed with flowers. | colors flowers garden | Isaac Asimov | |
| 9e8228b | Let them all come,' said the Commdor, expansively. 'A symbolic friendly union of our nations. It will give us a chance for further friendly discussion. But one thing.' his face lengthened and grew stern, 'none of your religion. Don't think that all this is an entering wedge for the missionaries.' 'Commdor,' said Mallow, dryly, 'I give you my word that religion would cut my profits. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 4cbf297 | The Sun burned down in a warm contrasting world of white and black, of white Sun against black sky and white rolling ground mottled with black shadow. The bright sweet smell of the Sun on every exposed square centimeter of metal contrasting with the creeping death-of-aroma on the other side. He lifted his hand and stared at it, counting the fingers. Hot-hot-hot-turning, putting each finger, one by one, into the shadow of the others and the .. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 54b27c6 | Now we can see what makes mathematics unique. Only in mathematics is there no significant correction-only extension. Once the Greeks had developed the deductive method, they were correct in what they did, correct for all time. Euclid was incomplete and his work has been extended enormously, but it has not had to be corrected. His theorems are, every one of them, valid to this day. Ptolemy may have developed an erroneous picture of the plane.. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| ff5e3f6 | It lasted for a long time, I believe." "A very long time. It was a great success, but even great successes come to a natural end." | longevity success | Isaac Asimov | |
| d0667e8 | Un nou-nascut crede ca el reprezinta intregul univers, dar greseste - asa cum isi da seama destul de repede. De aceea, el trebuie sa studieze lumea exterioara lui - trebuie sa incerce sa invete unde se afla granitele dintre persoana sa si restul lumii - pentru a putea intelege cine este si cum se cuvine sa-si duca viata. | life | Isaac Asimov | |
| 64f45e2 | Innumerable surveys have made it quite clear that when a respectable elderly man makes up to a giggling young lady, it is not the giggling young lady so accosted that is offended by the action, but rather the granite-faced dowager, standing unnoticed by her side, who is. It is she who makes derogatory remarks concerning dirty old men, and is quite likely to attack him with an umbrella. | isaac-asimov the-sensuous-dirty-old-man | Isaac Asimov | |
| dc9be7c | In fact, once when I imprinted on a young lady's lips a chaste and fatherly kiss for about five minutes, I stopped and said, sorrowfully, "Wouldn't you rather be kissed by a twenty-one-year-old boy?" She frowned and said, "Of course not. If you'd ever been kissed by a twenty-one-year-old boy you'd know better than to ask." Remember that. In any direct competition, the old man is bound to win and the young man knows it." | isaac-asimov the-sensuous-dirty-old-man | Isaac Asimov | |
| f09ca88 | centuries would yet pass before the mighty works of fifty generations of humans would decay past use. Only the declining powers of men, themselves, rendered them useless now. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 74e3abc | During the century after , it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable. | master newton science scientific-knowledge | Isaac Asimov | |
| 545dc6d | Voy gulumsedi. "Iste bu fena. Ne zaman birisi belirli bir alanda tam bilgi sahibi olmadigini belirterek konuya girse, arkasindan o konuda cok acik bir bicimde fikrini belirtecek demektir." | fikir | Isaac Asimov | |
| eea0027 | To be a writer, you must write. To be a published writer you must finish what you write and then get what you've written in front of the outside world. | George H. Scithers | ||
| f29178b | How could any number of people--all together--know enough? It reminded Seldon of a puzzle that had been presented to him when he was young: Can you have a relatively small piece of platinum, with handholds affixed, that could not be lifted by the bare, unaided strength of any number of people, no matter how many? The answer was yes. A cubic meter of platinum weighs 22,420 kilograms under standard gravitational pull. If it is assumed that ea.. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 5b623a5 | So', she said, lifting her beer in a toast to the newest comer to LostRoses. 'Do you have a name or was your mother too appalled by your looks to claim you? | Janet Kagan | ||
| ddd331b | It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 4a3de63 | In a city of twenty million like New York, there might be one or two terrorists. Maybe ten of them at the outside. 10/20,000,000 = 0.00005 percent. One twenty-thousandth of a percent. That's pretty rare all right. Now, say you've got some software that can sift through all the bank records, or toll pass records, or public transit records, or phone call records in the city and catch terrorists 99 percent of the time. In a pool of twenty mill.. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 9902454 | Any outfit that can't figure out clean toilets and decent theming on its own can't benefit from my advice. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| f078f1c | But what if all the workers we went to said the same thing? What if, everywhere he [the boss] went, there were workers saying, 'We are worth so much,' and 'We will not be treated this way,' and 'You cannot take away our jobs unless there is a just reason for doing so'? What if all workers, everywhere, demanded this treatment? | Cory Doctorow |