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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| db2f6c0 | and leaving | Donna Tartt | ||
| 39b6600 | Then why aren't you happy?" "I don't want to talk about it." "And" | Donna Tartt | ||
| 3e0426c | The silence between us was happy and strange, connected by the cord and the icy voices thinly echoing. "You don't have to talk," she said. "If you don't feel like it." Her eyelids were heavy and her voice was drowsy and like a secret. "People always want to talk but I like being quiet." | Donna Tartt | ||
| 9be231c | human beings, each one of whom is a priceless, unique experiment of nature, are being shot to death in carloads.1 If | Hermann Hesse | ||
| f565673 | But my loyalties were elsewhere. And the flavor of Pippa's kiss--bittersweet and strange--stayed with me all the way back uptown, swaying and sleepy as I sailed home on the bus, melting with sorrow and loveliness, a starry ache that lifted me up above the windswept city like a kite: my head in the rainclouds, my heart in the sky. | Donna Tartt | ||
| f0c42b8 | affectionate exasperated breath I knew | Donna Tartt | ||
| b242c9b | he knew more than you and I, without teachers, without books, just because he believed in the river. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 0f30fcb | The least I could do was be kind to his mother and sister. It didn't occur to me then, though it certainly does now, that it was years since I'd roused myself from my stupor of misery and self-absorption; between anomie and trance, inertia and parenthesis and gnawing my own heart out, there were a lot of small, easy, everyday kindnesses I'd missed out on; and even the word kindness was like rising from unconsciousness into some hospital awa.. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 90e3771 | I began to realize, with some little horror, that she was nothing more than a lowbrow, pop-psychology version of Sylvia Plath. It lasted forever, like some weepy and endless made-for-TV movie--all the clinging, all the complaints, all the parking-lot confessions of "inadequacy" and "poor self-image," all those banal sorrows." | Donna Tartt | ||
| 406db7f | And though it's a bleak thing to admit all these years later, still I've never met anyone who made me feel loved the way she did. Everything came alive in her company; she cast a charmed theatrical light about her so that to see anything through her eyes was to see it in brighter colors than ordinary. | love mother | Donna Tartt | |
| 2bfedee | In this atmosphere of wintry desolation and isolation, this slowly, very slowly increasing chill, my hands and lips started to freeze. Had I extinguished the sun? Had I killed the heart of all life? | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 504305e | I had walked but a short time when I met a man with a tin number on his hat, and he asked me what I was doing. I told him I was taking a walk. His response: 'Do you have permission?' I did not understand him. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 45acb60 | que la vida no era un poema heroico con papeles protagonicos y cuestiones por el estilo, sino una comoda sala burguesa donde la gente estaba satisfecha con comer y beber, con tomar cafe y zurcirse las medias, con echar el tarot y escuchar la musica de la radio. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 602e15a | This are things, and things can be loved. But I cannot love words. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| e489bfd | He looked the blond lion straight in the eye and learned how large and wonderful the wild world was where there are no cages or human beings. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 5cd5597 | This too I have learned from the river: Everything returns! | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 74159a6 | I saw that something remained of the fools' play, the death dance of human life, something lasting: works of art. They too will probably perish some day; they'll burn or crumble or be destroyed. Still, they outlast many human lives; they form a silent empire of images and relics beyond the fleeting moment. To work at that seems good and comforting to me, because it almost succeeds in making the transitory eternal. | immortality | Hermann Hesse | |
| d053207 | We are created and resurrected with our dreams. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| b4cca98 | Mudrost, koju mudrac pokusava da saopsti, zvuci uvek kao ludost. ... Saznanje se moze saopstiti ali ne i mudrost. Ona se moze naci, u njoj se moze ziveti i biti ponesen njome, sa njom se mogu stvarati cuda, ali se ne moze iskazati i nauciti. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| bedced4 | The fact that the student enjoyed his happiness only in a dream should not diminish it, for most people experience their dreams more intensely than their lives. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 45b3ba4 | Humanity came first for him, not a political party or movement, and he believed peace could be achieved only if people were given freedom to realise their humanitarian impulses. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| ad39c62 | O]ver his soul in fleeting waves of happiness, the dreamlike presentiment of a bright earth ruled by the sun began to flicker, an earth on which bright liberated creatures lived in lightness and were subservient to no one. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 7bffcd7 | I became unhappy because I saw nothing but the usual tribulations, trade, progress, and improvements on the earth. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 4012d64 | In the meantime the Great Revolution occurred and moved throughout the entire world - that strange transformation of human beings and things. It arose like a ghost or malady from the smoke of the first steam machines and transformed life all over the place. The world became full of work and industry. It came to be ruled by machines and was continually propelled to accomplish new kinds of work. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 6c8b516 | Youth is the hardest time in life. One seldom hears of an old person committing suicide. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| a9fc5a3 | But when we see anyone who suffers and is unruly in his suffering, we should overlook that and try to help him. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| d333187 | You have done so by your own seeking, in your own way. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 17fb61a | I am not going anywhere. I am only on my way. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 218ea88 | Many people have to change a great deal and wear all sorts of clothes | Hermann Hesse | ||
| c68f679 | Y]ou have no happiness in your heart, no power, no will that does not live in us as a presentiment, a reflection, a distant shadow in our hearts, too. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 4b38696 | All they thought about was how to get rich fast, and whoever had owned a mill or forge now had to have a factory quickly, and whoever had three workers now had to have ten. ... And the faster the many hands and machines worked, the faster the money accumulated - especially for those individuals who were adept at accumulating. Many, many workers ... suffered under conditions of drudgery and slavery. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| c2cadc6 | The world had been divided into ... parts that sought to annihilate each other because they both desired the same thing, namely the liberation of the oppressed, the elimination of violence, and the establishment of permanent peace. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| eee7d09 | They were ... neither beautiful nor ugly[.] | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 43bf9d2 | Bedenin ozben olmadigi , duyularin oyununun ozben olmadigi nasil kesinse, dusunceler de, akil da, ogrenilen bilgelikler de, bir dusunceden sonuclar cikarma ve yeni dusunceler uretme becerisi de ozben degildi. Hayir, dusuncelerin dunyasi da Ozben'in uzagindaydi, duyularin rastlandi niteligi tasiyan Ben'ini oldurup dusuncelerin ve bilgeliklerin rastlandisi niteligindeki Ben'ini beslemek de hedefe goturmeyecekti. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 9ab0b20 | O gizi de," diye sordu bir defasinda dostu Vasudeva'ya, "sen de irmaktan ogrendin mi o gizi, zaman diye bir sey olmadigini?" ... "Evet, Siddharta," diye cevapladi Vasudeva. "Senin demek istedigin su olacak sanirim: Irmak ayni zamanda her yerdedir, kaynadigi yerde, dokuldugu yerde, caglayanda, kayikta, akinti yerinde, denizde, dagda, ayni zamanda her yerde ve onun icin yalnizca su an vardir, gecmisin golgesi diye bir sey bilmez irmak, gelec.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| e92c23d | Zaman asilir asilmaz, zaman dusuncesi kafadan cikarilir cikarilmaz dunyadaki buyuk guclukler, butun dusmanliklar silinip gitmiyor mu, yenilgiye ugratilmiyor muydu? | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 5c0130c | Bilgelik bir baskasina anlatilamaz; bir bilgenin baskalarina anlatmaya calistigi bilgelik aptalca bir sey gibi gelir kulaga. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| b669f83 | Nefret ettigim iki sey arasinda secim yapmak zorundayim - ya aklimin tiksindigi dusleri sececegim ya da duyularimi dehsete dusuren eylemi; baska bir deyisle, hamurumda hissedemedigim eylem ya da simdiye kadar hic kimsenin mayasinda olmayan dus. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| ba765d2 | We might well look for the day when, with wires or without, with or without the disturbance of other sounds, we should hear King Solomon speaking, or Walter von der Vogelweide. And all this, I said, just as today was the case with the beginnings of radio, would be of no more service to man than as an escape from himself and his true aims, and a means of surrounding himself with an ever closer mesh of distractions and useless activities. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| c194cf2 | There was nothing to charm or tempt me. Everything was old, withered, grey, limp and spent, and stank of staleness and decay. Dear God, how was it possible? How had I, with the wings of youth and poetry, come to this? Art and travel and the glow of ideals -- and now this! How had this paralysis of hatred against myself and everyone else, this obstruction of all feeling, this mud-hell of an empty heart and despair crept over me so softly and.. | despair | Hermann Hesse | |
| 263ed11 | When I struck, I thought I was hitting a strong man capable of defending himself - but it was a quiet, suffering man, unarmed, who surrendered in silence. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| fb5bee9 | Pablo had left on me the impression of a pretty nonentity, a little beau, and somewhat empty at that, as happy as a child for whom there are no problems, whose joy is to dribble into his toy trumpet and who is kept quiet with praises and chocolate. Pablo, however, was not interested in my opinions. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| fe99f99 | wisdom cannot be passed on. Wisdom which a wise man tries to pass on to someone always sounds like foolishness. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 91e11e2 | Pero cuando se conoce lo otro, ya no se puede elegir el camino de la mayoria. Sinclair, el camino de la mayoria es facil, el nuestro dificil. Caminemos. | Hermann Hesse |