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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c733dd8 | I shall never sleep again. But then--how shall I endure my own company? | philosophy | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| c1daeb0 | Every belief is a belief that falls short; one never wholly believes what one believes. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 20b521c | GARCIN: This bronze. Yes, now's the moment; I'm looking at this thing on the mantelpiece, and I understand that I'm in hell. I tell you, everything's been thoughtout beforehand. They knew I'd stand at the fireplace stroking this thing of bronze, with all those eyes intent on me. Devouring me. What? Only two of you? I thought there were more; many more. So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the tort.. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 4c95b9f | Her eyes stare at me but she seems not to see me; she looks as though she were lost in her suffering. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 84c62fe | And I-- soft, weak, obscene, digesting, juggling with dismal thoughts-- I, too, was In the way. Fortunately, I didn't feel it, although I realized it, but I was uncomfortable because I was afraid of feeling it (even now I am afraid-- afraid that it might catch me behind my head and lift me up like a wave). I dreamed vaguely of killing myself to wipe out at least one of these superfluous lives. But even my death would have been In the way.In.. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| ef882b0 | Don't you ever get taken that way? When I can't see myself I begin to wonder if I really and truly exist. I pat myself just to make sure, but it doesn't help much. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 2c99dde | Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition. From time to time you make a semi-total: you say: I've been travelling for three years, I've been in Bouville for three years. Neither is there any end: you never leave a woman, a friend, a city in one go. And then everything looks alike.. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 990ce0b | From time to time I yawn so widely that tears roll down my cheek. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 0622f7b | And all these existents which bustled about this tree came from nowhere and were going nowhere. Suddenly they existed, then suddenly they existed no longer: existence is without memory; of the vanished it retains nothing--not even a memory. Existence everywhere, infinitely, in excess, for ever and everywhere; existence--which is limited only by existence. I sank down on the bench, stupefied, stunned by this profusion of beings without origi.. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| c996e42 | She smiled. First I lost the memory of her eyes, then the memory of her long body. I kept her smile as long as possible and then, finally lost that three years ago. Just now, brusquely, as I was taking the letter from the landlady's hands, it came back to me; I thought I saw Anny smiling. I try to refresh my memory: I need to feel all the tenderness that Anny inspires; it is there, this tenderness, it is near me, only asking to be born. But.. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 25fc981 | Madame Picard believed that a child should be allowed to read anything: 'A book never does any harm if it is well written.' While she was there, I had once asked permission to read Madame Bovary and my mother, in an oversweet voice, had said: 'But if my darling reads books like that at his age, what will he do when he grows up?' 'I shall live them!' This reply had met with the most complete and lasting success. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| bf0148e | nothing that exists can be comic; it was like a floating analogy, almost entirely elusive, with certain aspects of vaudeville. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| fd4acbc | Tuesday: Nothing. Existed. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 63c8662 | Love was not something to be felt, not a particular emotion, nor yet a particular shade of feeling, it was much more like a lowering curse on the horizon, a precursor of disaster. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| fc78371 | C'est ca le temps, le temps tout nu, ca vient lentement a l'existence, ca se fait attendre et quand ca vient, on est ecoeure parce qu'on s'apercoit que c'etait deja la depuis longtemps. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 4b83c73 | Perhaps it is impossible to understand one's own face. Or perhaps it is because I am a single man? People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in mirrors as they appear to their friends. I have no friends. Is that why my flesh is so naked? | nausea sartre single | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| 14cf18f | It looked like a colour, but also... like a bruise or a secretion, like an oozing-and something else, an odour, for example, it melted into the odour of wet earth, warm, moist wood, into a black odour that spread like varnish over this sensitive wood, in a flavour of chewed, sweet fibre. I did not simply see this black: sight is an abstract invention, a simplified idea, one of man's ideas. That black, amorphous, weakly presence, far surpass.. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 812c96c | Un hombre que esta solo es hermoso. - Tan hermoso que enseguida da ganas de hacerle compania. Y desde entonces deja de estar solo: asi es el mundo. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 1c2ae4b | To believe is to know that one believes, and to know that one believes is no longer to believe. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 7c19c1b | Welcome, praetor!" he said. "You need any giants' faces smashed while you're in town, just let me know." "Thanks, Terminus," Percy said. "I'll keep that in mind." "Yes, good. Your praetor's cape is an inch too low on the left. There--that's better. Where is my assistant? Julia!" The little girl ran out from behind the pedestal. She was wearing a green dress tonight, and her hair was still in pigtails. When she smiled, Percy saw that her fro.. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 3fbf356 | A large piece of lead floated out of Bobby head, followed by dark chunks of what could only be pieces of Bobby's brain. The torrent started up again. It flowed steady rather than pulsed with his heart. I knew from that, and from the amount of blood, that it was that mofo vein bleeding. And probably more than a small tear if the amount of blood was telling. I thought there had to be a hole the size of Montana in that thing. "Jesus Mother.. | medical-fiction medicine novella surgery | Edison McDaniels | |
| d5db8bf | You know when we came out of the clinic, and we saw those flower beds that we hadn't seen when we were walking in? That was so unexpected, I think it made me delirious somehow. And then it seemed like if we just threw off all restraints and talked wildly and ate wildly and shopped wildly, it would just turn up the delirium, and make it even better, or permanent somehow... | Jane Smiley | ||
| 076a91c | contemplate the difference between a reason and an excuse. A reason is its own reward, but an excuse leads to disappointment every time. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 76a9694 | The best that can happen to a girl, Claire, is to be a bit plain, like you. You think I'm being unkind, but I am telling you a truth. A plain girl has a longer time to herself, and when a man falls in love with her, he loves her for herself, for who she is. | Jane Smiley | ||
| b93c698 | I always feel a little guilty when I break bad news to someone, because that energy, of knowing something others don't, sort of puffs you up. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 0cd39b1 | We're not going to be sad. We're going to be angry until we die. It's the only hope. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 0cae736 | and the thick, sugary covering of the snow... | Jane Smiley | ||
| 7cae40e | Another might have missed the tension, but she had trained him in the Bene Gesserit Way - in the minutiae of observation. | Frank Herbert | ||
| d8a1259 | When a Truthsayer's gifted by the drug, she can look many places in her memory - in her body's memory. We look down so many avenues of the past... but only feminine avenues... Yet there's a place no Truthsayer can see. We are repelled by it, terrorized. It is said a man will come one day and find in the gift of the drug his inward eye. He will look where we cannot - into both feminine and masculine pasts... Many men have tried the drug... s.. | failure fear feminine masculine memory truth | Frank Herbert | |
| 36646d5 | I must rule with eye and claw -- as the hawk among lesser birds. - Duke Leto Atreides | strength-through-adversity | Frank Herbert | |
| 5493983 | How the mind gears itself for its environment, she thought. And she recalled a Bene Gesserit axiom: "The mind can go either direction under stress--toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training." | Frank Herbert | ||
| bbebbe2 | But attack can take strange forms. And you will remember the tooth. The tooth. Duke Leto Atreides. You will remember the tooth." -Dr.Yueh" -- | Frank Herbert | ||
| 354e6f4 | Where is the weapon with which I enforce your bondage? You give it to me every time you open your mouth. | Frank Herbert | ||
| b434b4b | Written words, if carefully laid down, represent the civilized ideal of reason. | writing | Brian Herbert | |
| 0509d7c | It is said of Muad'Dib that once when he saw a weed trying to grow between two rocks, he moved one of the rocks. Later, when the weed was seen to be flourishing, he covered it with the remaining rock. "That was its fate," he explained." | Frank Herbert | ||
| 1d8f350 | Bir geceyi uyanik gecirmek, omre bir gun eklemektir. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 13ca204 | The waters which we spread upon the desert have become blood. Blood upon our land! Behold our desert which could rejoice and blossom; it has lured the stranger and seduced him in our midst. They come for violence! Their faces are closed up as for the last wind of Kralizec! They gather the captivity of the sand. They suck up the abundance of the sand, the treasure hidden in the depths. Behold them as they go forth to their evil work. It.. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 71cd365 | Do as she says, you wormfaced, crawling, sand-brained piece of lizard turd! | Frank Herbert | ||
| b141f4d | A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears. | persuasion rhetoric vocabulary word-choice | Frank Herbert | |
| c04e76d | He understood terrible purposes. They drove against all odds. They were their own necessity. Paul felt that he had been infected with terrible purpose. He did not know yet what the terrible purpose was. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 392059a | Power and fear," he said. "The tools of statecraft." | Frank Herbert | ||
| e6c432c | Government cannot be religious and self-assertive at the same time. Religious experience needs a spontaneity which laws inevitably suppress. And you cannot govern without laws. Your laws eventually must replace morality, replace conscience, replace even the religion by which you think to govern. Sacred ritual must spring from praise and holy yearnings which hammer out a significant morality. Government, on the other hand, is a cultural orga.. | law religion | Frank Herbert | |
| cd341a2 | Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer. | distraction hesitation leadership procrastination | Frank Herbert | |
| 5a93e6b | When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movement becomes headlong--faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thought of obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late." Paul" | Frank Herbert |