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| ed94a9b | Often the psyche is the worst enemy of the body: it doesn't let the body live, it doesn't let it enjoy itself when it wants to or get the rest it is begging for. If only we could extract it the way we extract the tonsils or the appendix, we would all live healthy and contended lives till we were a thousand years old. | Amos Oz | ||
| 907160b | B.R.: Kato lek sreshchu fanatizma prepor'chvate chuvstvoto za khumor i cheteneto na Kafka i Shekspir, razvivaneto na umenieto da si predstavish drugiia. Ne moga da ne se zapitam dali niama da se nameriat khora, koito da obiaviat retseptata vi za nerealistichna, a vas - za beznadezhden romantik i idealist. Oz: Provintsialniiat lekar, za kak'vto se mislia, predpisva razvitieto na umenieto da si predstavim drugiia i chuvstvoto za khumor ne kat.. | Amos Oz | ||
| 1c48a8c | Prosto kazvam, che semeto na fanatizma nikne tam, k'deto ima bezkompromisna i nepoklatima ubedenost v sobstvenata pravota. | Amos Oz | ||
| 7519c19 | Temas: Los de siempre. El pasado ya inalterable, el presente fugitivo, el inexistente futuro. | Enrique Vila-Matas | ||
| f92ed37 | 13) Desde que empece estas notas sin texto oigo como rumor de fondo algo que escribiera Jaime Gil de Biedma sobre el no escribir. Sin duda, sus palabras aportan mayor complejidad al laberintico tema del No: "Quiza hubiera que decir algo mas sobre eso, sobre el no escribir. Mucha gente me lo pregunta, yo me lo pregunto. Y preguntarme por que no escribo, inevitablemente desemboca en otra inquisicion mucho mas azorante: ?por que escribi? Al fi.. | Enrique Vila-Matas | ||
| a0be3e7 | la evidencia de que la inutilidad de cualquier intento de construir racionalmente el mundo exterior implica necesariamente la incapacidad de crear una identidad propia. | Enrique Vila-Matas | ||
| cd94a6c | La mujeres son como la ayahuasca. | mujer vila-matas | Enrique Vila-Matas | |
| 46bf585 | Como dice Blanchot, la esencia de la literatura nunca esta ya aqui, siempre hay que encontrarla o inventarla de nuevo. Asi vengo yo trabajando en estas notas, buscando e inventando, prescindiendo de que existen unas reglas de juego de la literatura. Vengo yo trabajando en estas notas de forma un tanto despreocupada o anarquica, de un modo que me recuerda a veces la respuesta que dio el gran torero Belmonte cuando, en una entrevista, le requ.. | escritura literatura | Enrique Vila-Matas | |
| 9102df5 | Es curioso como las percepciones sobre los demas cambian tan facilmente de un dia para otro. | Enrique Vila-Matas | ||
| e001f98 | Miedo al miedo. | Enrique Vila-Matas | ||
| 7c12e02 | Sera por mi amor a lo futil por lo que esto me sucede. Puede que sea por mi propio escrupulo en el detalle. Pero mas bien creo --no lo se, estas cosas nunca las analizo-- que es porque lo minimo, por no tener absoluto importancia ninguna social o practica, tiene, debido a la mera ausencia de esto, una independencia absoluta de asociaciones sucias con la realidad. Lo minimo --y mi odradek lo es-- me sabe siempre irreal. Lo inutil es bello po.. | Enrique Vila-Matas | ||
| e51812e | Una gran desgracia, en cualquier caso, para la vida interior de la vida y tambien para todos aquellos que aun desean utilizar subjetivamente la palabra, tensarla y estirarla hacia miles de conexiones de luz que quedan por restablecer en la gran oscuridad del mundo. | Enrique Vila-Matas | ||
| b595c08 | The same skills needed for writing are needed or reading. Writers fail readers, but it also happens the other way around and readers fail writers when all they ask of them is confirmation that the world is how they see it... | Enrique Vila-Matas | ||
| 96df1bf | Creo que si se exige talento a un editor literario o a un escritor, debe exigirsele tambien al lector. Porque no hay que enganarse: el viaje de la lectura pasa muchas veces por terrenos dificiles que exigen capacidad de emocion inteligente, deseos de comprender al otro y de acercarse a un lenguaje distinto al de nuestras tiranias cotidianas. Como dice Vilem Vok, no es tan sencillo sentir el mundo como lo sintio Kafka, un mundo en el que se .. | lector | Enrique Vila-Matas | |
| 0da0614 | nada nos dice donde nos encontramos y cada momento es un lugar donde nunca hemos estado. | Enrique Vila-Matas | ||
| 3654118 | a la muerte le sienta bien la tristeza leve de una severa espera. | Enrique Vila-Matas | ||
| 3fe071c | Lo apocaliptico exige ser tratado sin excesiva seriedad. | Enrique Vila-Matas | ||
| 1b67de5 | In Leipzig [in the 14th century], the university found it necessary to promulgate a rule against throwing stones at the professors. As late as 1495, a German statute explicitly forbade anyone associated with the university from drenching freshmen with urine. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 561c91b | Rosenthal went on to study precisely that - what expectation mean for our children. In one line of research he showed that teachers' expectations greatly affect their students' academic performance, even when the teachers try to treat them impartially. For example, he and a colleague asked schoolkids in eighteen classrooms to complete an IQ test. The teachers, but not students, were given results. The researchers told the teachers that the .. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 4d3fbd4 | The appeal of many conspiracy theories depends on the misunderstanding of this logic. That is, it depends on confusing the probability that a series of events would happen if it were the product of a huge conspiracy with the probability that a huge conspiracy exists if a series of events occurs. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 9b7af2a | Paleolithic humans migrated often, and, like my teenagers, they followed the food. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 92aad27 | most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 12ea7c2 | Kant said, there is Das Ding an sich, a thing as it is, and there is Das Ding fur uns, a thing as we know it. For | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| d0f1c64 | In fact, when some wedding guest inevitably complains about the seating arrangements, you might point out how long it would have taken you to consider every possibility: assuming you spent one second considering each one, it would come to more than half a million years. The unhappy guest will assume, of course, that you are being histrionic. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 70867ee | if events are random, we are not in control, and if we are in control of events, they are not random. There is therefore a fundamental clash between our need to feel we are in control and our ability to recognize randomness. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 27e57f4 | Poland! Poland! The very name carries with it sighings and groanings, nation-murder, brilliance, beauty, patriotism, splendors, self-sacrifice through generations of gallant men and exquisite women; indomitable endurance of bands of noble people carrying through world-wide exile the sacred fire of wrath against the oppressor, and uttering in every clime a cry of appeal to Humanity to rescue Poland. | Henryk Sienkiewicz | ||
| 94d5889 | Jakie spoleczenstwo, taka literatura. | Henryk Sienkiewicz | ||
| 7c1817c | It seemed that out of every tear of a martyr new confessors were born, and that every groan on the arena found an echo in thousands of breasts. Caesar was swimming in blood, Rome and the whole pagan world was mad. But those who had had enough of transgression and madness, those who were trampled upon, those whose lives were misery and oppression, all the weighed down, all the sad, all the unfortunate, came to hear the wonderful tidings of .. | hope love nero tyranny | Henryk Sienkiewicz | |
| c52c761 | At most, a hundred paces separated him from them. The powerful beast, seeing the riders and horses, rose on his fore paws and began to gaze at them. The sun, which now stood low, illuminated his huge head and shaggy breasts, and in that ruddy luster he was like one of those sphinxes which ornament the entrances to ancient Egyptian temples. | lions wilderness | Henryk Sienkiewicz | |
| c186e82 | In the meantime the groans changed into the protracted, thunderous roar by which all living creatures are struck with terror, and the nerves of people, who do not know what fear is, shake, just as the window-panes rattle from distant cannonading. | suspence terror wilderness | Henryk Sienkiewicz | |
| 510c1fb | The shots had dispersed the birds; there remained only two marabous, standing between ten and twenty paces away and plunged in reverie. They were like two old men with bald heads pressed between the shoulders. | wilderness | Henryk Sienkiewicz | |
| cc3e707 | Thoughts like mine are not reckoned among the delights of life. It is like the dog trying to catch his tail; he does not catch anything. I do not prove anything, only tire myself; but have the satisfaction that another day has passed, or another night gone by. I | Henryk Sienkiewicz | ||
| cf14edf | Es esta la nueva doctrina desconocida? Todo el mundo sabe eso: todo el mundo lo ha escuchado antes. Los cinicos han recomendado la pobreza y la restriccion de las necesidades; Socrates ha prescrito la virtud como una cosa antigua buena; el primer estoico a quien uno encuentra, si bien sea el propio Seneca -que tiene quinientas mesas de madera de limonero-, ensalza la continencia, recomienda la verdad, la paciencia en la adversidades, la for.. | Henryk Sienkiewicz | ||
| 6fd1944 | Que sociedad! -A tal sociedad, tal Cesar.[...] | Henryk Sienkiewicz | ||
| 52f4bc8 | Na tozi sviat e po-lesno da namerish filosof, otkolkoto dob'r s'vet | Henryk Sienkiewicz | ||
| ef4da75 | In 1967, one in three American adults filled a prescription for a "psychoactive" medication, with total sales of such drugs reaching $692 million." | Robert Whitaker | ||
| 07d5f82 | The GAO, in its June 2008 report, concluded that one in every sixteen young adults in the United States is now "seriously mentally ill." -- | Robert Whitaker | ||
| be44a4a | The "cure," it seemed, had once again been proven to be "worse than the disease." | Robert Whitaker | ||
| e1a4753 | The off-drug patients also suffered less from depression, blunted emotions, and retarded movements. Indeed, they told Carpenter and McGlashan that they had found it "gratifying and informative" to have gone through their psychotic episodes without having their feelings numbed by the drugs. Medicated patients didn't have that same learning experience, and as a result Carpenter and McGlashan concluded, over the long term they "are less able t.. | Robert Whitaker | ||
| 0718dd8 | We must realize that mental problems are just as real as physical disease, and that anxiety and depression require active therapy as much as appendicitis or pneumonia," wrote Dr. Howard Rusk, a professor at New York University who penned a weekly column for the New York Times. "They are all medical problems requiring medical care."12" | Robert Whitaker | ||
| d57bb22 | How I Got That Name Marilyn Chin an essay on assimilation I am Marilyn Mei Ling Chin Oh, how I love the resoluteness of that first person singular followed by that stalwart indicative of "be," without the uncertain i-n-g of "becoming." Of course, the name had been changed somewhere between Angel Island and the sea, when my father the paperson in the late 1950s obsessed with a bombshell blond transliterated "Mei Ling" to "Marilyn." And nobod.. | Marilyn Chin | ||
| 8144ea9 | Letty allowed her to ramble on while she looked around the wood, remembering its autumn carpet of beech leaves and wondering if it could be the kind of place to lie down in and prepare for death when life became too much to be endured. | autumn death suicide | Barbara Pym | |
| 69b7de6 | He says not to list the patients we save but the ones we don't kill. | Barbara Wood | ||
| c7ef376 | Vsiaka godina neshcho shche razts'ftiava v zhivota mi,koeto shche i napomnia za teb.Vinagi shche e razlichno,niakoga edno i s'shcho,no shche b'de khubavo.Liubovta otseliava. | Barbara Delinsky |