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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8b31602 | Either you enlist under the kapetan, that murderer who knew only one word, but the only word, or you enlist under Anton. You watch and you despair. Or you despair and you watch. In the first case, you commit physical suicide; in the second, moral. | John Fowles | ||
| 8d1fc78 | It seemed sadistic, this last wasteland of days. It was as if Conchis, with Alison's connivance, proceeded by some outmoded Victorian dietetic morality--one couldn't have more jam, the sweetness of events, until one ate a lot more bread, the dry stodge of time. | John Fowles | ||
| 31bfc6d | These question-boundaries ...are ours, not of reality. We are led to them, caged by them not only culturally and intellectually, but quite physically, by the restlessness of our eyes and their limited field and acuity of vision. | John Fowles | ||
| 31df9fd | Cel care creeaza nu-l poate iubi pe cel care critica. Exista o diferenta prea mare intre cele doua activitati. Una este nastere, cealalta chirurgie. | John Fowles | ||
| 3bb0752 | what this instruction cannot give is the deepest benefit of any art, be it of making, or of knowing, or of experiencing: which is self-expression and self-discovery. | John Fowles | ||
| 0e274e7 | We lack trust in the present, this moment, this actual seeing, because our culture tells us to trust only the reported back, the publicly framed, the edited, the thing set in the clearly artistic or the clearly scientific angle of perspective. One of the deepest lessons we have to learn is that nature, of its nature, resists this. It waits to be seen otherwise, in its individual presentness and from our individual presentness. | John Fowles | ||
| 6658eeb | Despite all the identifying, measuring, photographing, I had managed to set the experience in a kind of present past, a having looked, even as I was temporally and physically still looking...It is not necessarily too little knowledge that causes ignorance; possessing too much, or wanting to gain too much, can produce the same result. | nature | John Fowles | |
| cbbdcf2 | Such as I seek, fit to participate All rational delight, wherein the brute Cannot be human consort; they rejoyce Each with thir kinde, Lion with Lioness; So fitly them in pairs thou hast combin'd; Much less can Bird with Beast, or Fish with Fowle So well converse, nor with the Ox the Ape; Wors then can Man with Beast, and least of all. Whereto th' Almighty answer'd, not displeas'd. A nice and suttle happiness I see Tho.. | John Milton | ||
| 65c2dc4 | Whom thus the Sin-born Monster answerd soon. To mee, who with eternal Famin pine, Alike is Hell, or Paradise, or Heaven, There best, where most with ravin I may meet; Which here, though plenteous, all too little seems To stuff this Maw, this vast unhide-bound Corps. To whom th' incestuous Mother thus repli'd. Thou therefore on these Herbs, and Fruits, & Flours Feed first, on each Beast next, and Fish, and Fowle, No homel.. | John Milton | ||
| bfc16e5 | Can a man who's warm understand one who's freezing? | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | ||
| 28927ba | I should like you also to reflect that its events could have taken place only in a world where man considers himself superior to woman. In what the Americans call "a man's world". That is, a world governed by brute force, humourless arrogance, illusory prestige and primeval stupidity.' He stared at the screen. 'Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them. In.. | John Fowles | ||
| 66b7ef2 | Boredom, the numbing, annual predictability of life hung over the staff like a cloud. And it was real boredom, not my modish ennui. From it flowed cant, hypocrisy, and the impotent rage of the old who know they have failed and the young who suspect that they will fail. The senior masters stood like Gallows sermons; with some of them one had a sort of vertigo, a glimpse of the bottomless pit of human futility | John Fowles | ||
| 217e787 | Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity. We were at the opposite poles of humanity. Lily was humanity bound to duty, unable to choose, suffering at the mercy of social ideals. Humanity both crucified and marching toward the cross. And I was free, I was Peter three times the renounce, determined to survive whatever the cost. I still see her face, her face staring, staring into the darkness as if she were trying to gaze herse.. | John Fowles | ||
| 89ba13a | We shall never fully understand nature (or ourselves), and certainly never respect it, until we dissociate the wild from the notion of usability - however innocent and harmless the use. For it is the general uselessness of so much of nature that lies at the root of our ancient hostility and indifference to it. | humanity nature profit | John Fowles | |
| 23e278f | She would give herself violently, then yawn at the wrongest moment. She would spend all one day cleaning up the flat, cooking, ironing. Then, pass the next three or four Boheminanly on the floor in front of the fire, reading Lear, women's magazines, a detective story, Hemingway. Not all at the same time, but bits of all in the same afternoon. She liked doing things, and only then finding a reason for doing them. | John Fowles | ||
| bd26ccd | Vsestoronne podgotovlennyi k provalu, ia vstupil v bol'shuiu zhizn'. | John Fowles | ||
| 5003197 | Jung deu um nome ao seu tipo de mulher. Um nome que nao ajuda muito. A doenca e bem pior do que o nome... | John Fowles | ||
| ea63a39 | Seven men inhabit the raft. The pessimist, for whom the good things of life are no more than lures to prolong suffering; the egocentric, whose motto is 'Carpe diem' - enjoy today - and who does his best to get the most comfortable part of the raft himself; the optimist, always scanning the horizon for the promised land; the observer, who finds it enough to write the logbook of the voyage and to note down the behaviour of the sea, the raft a.. | John Fowles | ||
| b253eba | Kogda mashina svernula s nashei ulitsy, ia ostro oshchutil, chto spassia; i, pozhalui, stol' zhe ostrym bylo merzkoe osoznanie, chto ona liubila sil'nee, chem ia, a znachit, v kakom-to nevyrazimom smysle ia vyigral. | John Fowles | ||
| bfa8614 | mt`eli am drois ganmavlobashi ar vp`ik`robdi, rom seriozulad vapirebdi raimes. vic`i, rom es uc`naurad zhg'ers, magram namdvilad ase iqo. ch`emt`vis vimeorebdi, rom arasdros aset` rames ar gavaket`ebdi, rom es mxolod ch`ems carmosaxvashi xdeboda da carmosaxvashic` ar moxdeboda, rom ara p`uli da t`avisup`ali dro. ch`emi azrit`, bevri imat`gani, vinc` axla sheiz'leba t`avist`vis ucqinarad c`xovrobs, imaves gaaket`ebda, rac` me gavaket`e, p`ul.. | John Fowles | ||
| 5089e03 | I had just written a letter to Alison, but already she seemed far away, not in distance, not in time, but in some dimension for which there is no name. Reality, perhaps. | John Fowles | ||
| ed644fa | Kuskusuz, kendimizi oldugu gibi kabullenmek, daima ne olmamiz gerektiginin onune gecmelidir; iste bu yuzden, bu bir adim one gitmek demekti... John Fowles-The Magus (Buyucu) | John Fowles | ||
| 79e1dc4 | La urma urmei, ce era eu? Ce ma fortase conchis sa spun era foarte aproape de adevar: nu eram altceva decat suma numeroaselor mele esecuri. Jargonul freudian din timpul procesului ma facea sa zambesc, dar toata viata mea nu facusem decat sa transform viata in fictiune, refuzand sa privesc realitatea in fata. Ma comportasem intotdeauna ca si cand exista o a treia persoana care ma privea, ma asculta si imi punea nota buna sau rea pentru compo.. | John Fowles | ||
| 27d8146 | davit, | John Fowles | ||
| 1feddda | Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead. | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | ||
| 906f5c0 | era un viso indimenticabile, un viso tragico. Sgorgava dolore con la stessa purezza, naturalezza e inarrestabilita con cui sgorga l'acqua da una sorgente nei boschi. Non c'era artificio in esso, ne ipocrisia, ne isterismo, ne maschera; soprattutto non c'era la minima traccia di pazzia. La pazzia era nel mare vuoto, nel vuoto orizzonte, [...]; come se la sorgente fosse stata naturale in se ma innaturale in quanto sgorgava da un deserto. | victorian | John Fowles | |
| 6b1f267 | Moris na moem meste skazal by, chto seks otlichaetsia ot drugikh udovol'stvii intensivnost'iu, no ne kachestvom. Chto eto lish' chast', prichem ne glavnaia, tekh chelovecheskikh otnoshenii, chto zovutsia liubov'iu. I chto glavnaia chast' - eto iskrennost', vystradannoe doverie serdtsa k serdtsu. Ili, esli ugodno, dushi k dushe. Chto fizicheskaia izmena - lish' sledstvie izmeny dukhovnoi. Ibo liudi, kotorye podarili drug drugu liubov', ne im.. | John Fowles | ||
| 36e082c | Ei bylo let tridtsat'. Prirozhdennaia staraia deva, do togo neprivlekatel'naia, chto v svoikh modnykh triapkakh i obil'nom makiiazhe vygliadit prosto zhalkoi, budto nezadachlivaia geisha. | John Fowles | ||
| c9f94fb | a cloud, it would | John Fowles | ||
| 7ef668c | Pered vykhodom ona nakladyvala na veki gustye teni, i, esli oni sochetalis' s obychnym dlia nee mrachnym vyrazheniem gub, pokhozhe bylo, chto ee pobili; i chem dol'she vy smotreli na nee, tem bol'she vam khotelos' samomu nanesti udar. | John Fowles | ||
| cb48dc5 | Ona umolkla, i ia ne stal otvechat' na ee sarkazm. Nesmotria na vneshniuiu nezavisimost', ona ne mogla bez opory. Vsiu zhizn' stremilas' eto oprovergnut' - i tem samym podtverzhdala. Budto morskoi anemon - tron', i on prisosetsia k ruke. | John Fowles | ||
| 9a66fc0 | Ama Tanri dualari duymaz. O'nda duymak veya gormek veya acimak veya yardim etmek gibi insanliktan eser yoktur. | John Fowles | ||
| 3c2f63a | There were even times I thought I would forget her. But forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn't happen to me. | John Fowles | ||
| 849f83f | Do you really regard Mr. Knapp as crazy? | Louis Tracy | ||
| 9e831d4 | Our dove, however, has a simple home, always in high and open places toward the light since this symbol of the Holy Spirit loves the sunrise, the symbol of Christ. Just so, truth blushes at nothing except being hidden away, because no one is ashamed to listen to her, to learn to recognize as God the one whom nature has already pointed out to him as God, the one whom he sees daily in all his works. For | Tobias Churton | ||
| 4ec5e84 | The more religious people are, the more they believe in black magic. (Aleister Crowley)1 | Tobias Churton | ||
| 0ecf826 | Whether one is looking at the so-called Age of Reason, the Middle Ages, the modern age, or the pre-Christian era, gnostic philosophy remains the same dynamic, liberating power. Existing in time, it points beyond time. It calls us to wake up from materialist vision to a more profound, higher, and more centered perception. Whether the expression of the gnosis is apparently Christian, classical, Jewish, magical, Islamic, Buddhist, Hindu, Easte.. | Tobias Churton | ||
| 58e9eea | To sum up, the dove used to reveal Christ; the serpent used to tempt him. The former from the first was the herald of divine love; the latter from the first was the thief of God's image. Therefore, innocence by itself can easily both recognize and exhibit God. Wisdom by itself can rather attack and betray him. Now, let the serpent hide himself as much as he can; let him twist his entire wisdom into the windings of his lairs. Let him live de.. | Tobias Churton | ||
| 8edffa5 | The first words of the inhabitats of Partgrad were offensive words. | Aleksandr Zinovyev | ||
| 3563508 | Perestroika is nothing but a spectacle organized from above. | Aleksandr Zinovyev | ||
| 5335c64 | Better to wear out than to rust out! | mary-westmacott | Mary Westmacott | |
| 4a49b76 | Gus, help me! Help! Oh, God, no no nooo!" So screamed the female upon at last fully perceiving the stained altar just before her, and evidently realizing its purpose, just at the moment when the two priests who were not playing instruments came to tear away her garlands and clothes and chain her down upon the stones. The berserker watched steadily to see whether Gus or God (whatever entities these might be) might come to the female's aid, a.. | Fred Saberhagen | ||
| 50a39e2 | Hellas belongs to the Hellenes. | Andreas Papandreou | ||
| bf4c239 | A few years back, when I finally got smart enough to go to a therapist, she asked me how I had held things together all these years. It didn't take long to come up with an answer. "That's easy. I belong to a book club." | Lorna Landvik |