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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0b690b1 | This was when Geryon liked to plan his autobiography; in that blurred state, between awake and asleep. When too many intake values are open in the soul, like the terrestrial crust of the earth. | Anne Carson | ||
| 3008d9b | People really understand very little of one another. Sometimes when I speak to him, my Cid looks very hard and straight into my face as if in search of something (a city on a map?) like someone who has tumbled off a star. But he's not the one who feels alien--ever, I think. He lives in a small country of hope, which is his heart. Like Sokrates he fails to understand why travel should be such a challenge to the muscles of the heart, for othe.. | Anne Carson | ||
| e03c317 | When you are falling in love it is always already too late: deute, as the poets say. | Anne Carson | ||
| cac1fcf | You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, Where can I put it down? --Anne Carson, "The Glass Essay" | T Kira Madden | ||
| 747b3c3 | Look at me. This is nobility in a man: to bear what falls from the gods and not say No. | Anne Carson | ||
| 9a902ec | let's do something cheerful all your designs are about captivity, it depresses me. Geryon watched the top of Herakles' head and felt his limits returning. Nothing to say. He looked at this fact in mild surprise. Once in childhood his ice cream had been eaten by a dog. Just an empty con in a small dramatic red fist. | Anne Carson | ||
| 91654be | TV is just troubled people being booed these days. | Jon Ronson | ||
| b8b5347 | Oh, outcast of all outcasts most abandoned! --to the earth art thou not forever dead? to its honors, to its flowers, to its golden aspirations? --and a cloud, dense, dismal, and limitless, does it not hang eternally between thy hopes and heaven? | Edgar Allan Poe | ||
| 73ba6a6 | That's what makes death so hard--unsatisfied curiosity. --BERYL MARKHAM, | James C. Collins | ||
| 8631833 | It is really this that makes death so hard -- curiosity unsatisfied. | Beryl Markham | ||
| e3f7968 | Africa is never the same to anyone who leaves it and returns again. It is not a land of change, but it is a land of moods and its moods are numberless. | Beryl Markham | ||
| f39c7fc | It seemed that the printers of the African maps had a slightly malicious habit of including, in large letters, the names of towns, junctions, and villages which, while most of them did exist in fact, as a group of thatched huts may exist or a water hole, they were usually so inconsequential as completely to escape discovery from the cockpit. | maps | Beryl Markham | |
| 92ae803 | The mechanistic age impended over an horizon not hostile, but silently indifferent. | Beryl Markham | ||
| a9fc282 | None of the characters in (the story) were distinguished ones -- not even the lion. He was an old lion, prepared from birth to lose his life rather than to leave it. But he had the dignity of all free creatures, and so he was allowed his moment. It was hardly a glorious moment. The two men who shot him were indifferent as men go, or perhaps they were less than that. At least they shot him without killing him, and then turned the unsconscion.. | hunting lions stupidity tourists | Beryl Markham | |
| 804b48e | On vultures:) "... those false but democratic mourners at every casual bier ..." | Beryl Markham | ||
| 78c012e | From the time I arrived in British East Africa at the indifferent age of four and went through the barefoot stage of early youth hunting wild pig with the Nandi, later training racehorses for a living, and still later scouting Tanganyika and the waterless bush country between the Tana and Athi Rivers, by aeroplane, for elephant, I remained so happily provincial I was unable to discuss the boredom of being alive with any intelligence until I.. | boredom england ennui london urban-life urbanism | Beryl Markham | |
| fd6f8bf | There is a legend that elephant dispose of their dead in secret burial grounds and that none of these has ever been discovered. In support of this, there is only the fact that the body of an elephant, unless he had been trapped or shot in his tracks, has rarely been found. What happens to the old and diseased? Not only natives, but many white settlers, have supported for years the legend (if it is a legend) that elephant will carry their wo.. | Beryl Markham | ||
| b7faa6d | Ignominy is universally acknowledged to be a worse punishment than death . . . It would seem strange that ignominy should ever have been adopted as a milder punishment than death, did we not know that the human mind seldom arrives at truth up on any subject till it has first reached the extremity of error. --BENJAMIN RUSH, "AN ENQUIRY INTO THE EFFECTS OF PUBLIC PUNISHMENTS UPON CRIMINALS, AND UPON SOCIETY," MARCH 9, 1787" | Jon Ronson | ||
| 53804e1 | A ratos preocupado porque llevo muchos meses sin escribir, marcado por el vertigo y la circulacion social. Reuniones, fiestas, entretenimientos. Decidido a terminar con esa farsa y sentarme a escribir salga como salga, por fin. | Ricardo Piglia | ||
| aa87579 | De todos modos el destino habia empezado a armar su trama, a tejer su intriga, a anudar en un punto los hilos sueltos de aquello que los antiguos griegos han llamado el muthos. | Ricardo Piglia | ||
| 48315c9 | The idea of a small circle, of an exalted and loyal sect, with a traitor infiltrated at its core, an informant who's not foreign to the sect, but constitutes an part of its structure---this was the true organizational form of any small society. One must act knowing that there's a traitor infiltrated in the ranks. | betrayal groups loyalty organizations sects society traitor trust | Ricardo Piglia | |
| c94f998 | Pero, para colmo, nadie te podra garantizar lo porvenir, porvenir que en cualquier caso es triste: si fracasas, porque el fracaso es siempre penoso y, en el artista, tragico; si triunfas, porque el triunfo es una especie de vulgaridad, una suma de malentendidos, un manoseo; convirtiendote en esa asquerosidad que se llama un hombre publico, y con derecho (?con derecho?) un chico, como vos mismo eras al comienzo, te podra escupir.Y tambien de.. | porvenir tragico tristeza | Ernesto Sabato | |
| a094de5 | No tengo inconvenientes en manifestar que a veces me impedia comer en todo el dia o me impedia pintar durante una semana el haber observado un rasgo; es increible hasta que punto la codicia, la envidia, la petulancia, la groseria, la avidez y, en general, todo ese conjunto de atributos que forman la condicion humana pueden verse en una cara, en una manera de caminar, en una mirada. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| ba9ae71 | Desgraciadamente, estuve condenado a permanecer ajeno a la vida de cualquier mujer. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
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| 21c2d6c | In piata din fata garii am stat sa privesc un baiat. Si am admirat inca o data cum, in copilarie, timpul trecea incet, ca si cum ar fi fost incremenit. Un infinit se intinde intre Boboteaza care a trecut si aceea care va veni, iar aniversarile copiilor se succeda dupa atatea intamplari sau vise, incat urmatoarea pare la fel de departe pentru ei ca batranetea insasi ... asa cum orele copilariei sunt mai lungi, atunci cand imbatranesti orele .. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| dba55ae | Ar fi putut sa scrie despre unii adolescenti, fiinte ce sufera mai mult decat oricine pe aceasta lume neinduratoare si care ar trebuie sa se bucure de mai multe drepturi decat toti oamenii, descriind in acelasi timp drama si sensul suferintelor lor, daca, intr-adevar, acestea ar avea vreun sens. | inspirational suffering | Ernesto Sabato | |
| 3a7992d | Dar cum nimic din noi nu poate reinvia exact asa cum a fost candva, se simtea tulburat. Caci nu mai suntem cei care am fost, pentru ca noi cladiri au fost ridicate peste daramaturile celor macinate de foc si batalii, iar cele ce au mai ramas in picioare sunt pline de singuratate, au suferit si ele trecerea timpului, in timp ce aceia care le-au locuit abia de mai traiesc in amintirea confuza a cuiva sau in vreo legenda, stingandu-se definiti.. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| f8b31e4 | En un planeta minusculo que corre hacia la nada, nacemos en medio de dolores, crecemos, luchamos, hacemos sufrir, gritamos, morimos, y otros estan naciendo para volver a empezar. Toda nuestra vida seria una serie de gritos anonimos en un desierto de astros indiferentes | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| d9fb186 | Este o crima, o rusine pentru fiecare om sa stie ca exista pe lume doua sute cincizeci de milioane de copii exploatati. Obligati sa munceasca de la cinci-sase ani, in locuri insalubre, sa presteze zile de munca istovitoare pentru cativa banuti cand au noroc, deoarece multi copii lucreaza in stare de sclavie sau semisclavie, fara protectie legala sau medicala. Aceste milioane de copii analfabeti, mai slabi si mai scunzi decat copiii nostri c.. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 4784108 | En cuanto a ti que nos salvas, beduino de Libia, te borraras, sin embargo, para siempre de mi memoria. No me acordare nunca de tu rostro. Tu eres el Hombre y te me apareceras con la cara de todos los hombres a la vez. Nunca fijaste la mirada para examinarnos, y nos has reconocido. Eres el hermano bien amado. Y, a mi vez, yo te reconocere en todos los hombres. ... Todos mis amigos, todo mis enemigos en marchan hacia mi, yo no tengo ya un sol.. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| d93a2df | Dupa cum se pare, demnitatea vietii omului nu a fost prevazuta in planul globalizarii. Nelinistea e singurul lucru care a ajuns pe culmi niciodata banuite. Este o lume care traieste in perversitate, unde unii, putini, isi contabilizeaza castigurile pe seama amputarii vietii imensei majoritati. S-a ajuns la aparitia unui biet om care apartine lumii dezvoltate si care are acces la nenumarate produse dintr-un supermarket. Si in timp ce acel sa.. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| d839f2a | cei mai ghinionisti se ineaca in adancul apelor sau stau pe marginea prapastiei, iar in mijlocul unui carnaval mascat danseaza oamenii zilei, asurziti de propriile bufonerii. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 6e31e7c | lys bmqdwr lflsf@ 'n tj`l lnsn ldhy mzqth HDrtn mtkmlan thny@. lkn hdhh lmhm@ 'lqyt `l~ 'kbr lrwyt. | الفلسفة الحضارة الرواية مهمة | Ernesto Sabato | |
| b62eb4b | Como la luz de la aurora que se presiente en la oscuridad de la noche, asi de cerca esta la muerte de mi. Es una presencia invisible. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| fcb9223 | lys mn sbyl ljtyz l'bdy@ Gyr lt`mq fy llHZ@ lrhn@, wlys hnk mn shkl akhr ltHqyq lshmwly@ l mn khll lHl@ lshkhSy@: hn wlan (lHDr lzmkny) wmhm@ lktb tkwn, wlHl@ hdhh, drk lqym l'dby@ lty tsrbt l~ ldrm ljtm`y@ wlsysy@ lmknh wzmnh | الدراما الكتب القيم الشمولية التعمق الزمكان | Ernesto Sabato | |
| d0bef10 | Sas zeto na kontostathoume na skephtoume to megaleio pou mporoume akoma na anazetame, an tolmesoume na axiologesoume te zoe me allo tropo. Mas zeto auto to kouragio pou mas topothetei sten pragmatike diastase tou anthropou. Oloi mas, kapoies phores, upotassomaste. Omos, uparkhei kati pou de latheuei pote: einai e pepoithese oti - monakha - oi axies tou pneumatos mporoun na mas sosoun ap' auto to seismo pou apeilei ten anthropine upostase. A.. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 9e7b18d | It is strange, but living is constructing memories. Right now, here in front of the sea, I know that I am creating small memories that someday will bring me melancholy and despair. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 994f465 | Son muchos los que en medio del tumulto interior buscaron el resplandor de un paraiso secreto. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| af7b158 | Scriitorul trebuie sa fie un martor incoruptibil al timpului sau, cu curajul de a spune adevarul si de a se ridica impotriva autoritatii oficiale care, orbita de interesele proprii, pierde din vedere sacralitatea fiintei umane. El trebuie sa se pregateasca pentru a-si asuma ceea ce etimologia cuvantului "martor" ii arata: martiriul. Anevoios este drumul care il asteapta: cei puternici il vor califica drept comunist pentru ca pretinde drepta.. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| f3be45e | The common assumption is that public punishments died out in the new great metropolises because they'd been judged useless. Everyone was too busy being industrious to bother to trail some transgressor through the city crowds like some volunteer scarlet letter. But according to the documents I found, that wasn't it at all. They didn't fizzle out because they were ineffective. They were stopped because they were far too brutal. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 239730d | If you couldn't kill your adversaries, or keep them imprisoned for ever, there was surely only one option left in the Colonel Alexander canon: you change their minds. | us-military war | Jon Ronson | |
| 61e81a5 | It felt as if the people on Twitter had been invited to be characters in a courtroom drama, and had been allowed to choose their roles, and had all gone for the part of the hanging judge. Or it was even worse than that. They all had gone for the part of the people in the lithographs being ribald at whippings. | Jon Ronson | ||
| eaaf6d9 | This place is packed with beautiful hipsters. While the Coney Island bombast radiated sincerity, everything here seems more ironic. When someone in the crowd ironically chants, 'USA!' someone else ironically chants back, 'Mother Russia. | irony mother-russia the-hunger-games | Jon Ronson |