"You know, I, I wish there could be an invention that bottled up the memory like perfume and it never faded never got stained. Then whenever I wanted to, I could uncork the bottle and, and live the memory all over again."- "Rebecca"
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"You know, I, I wish there could be an invention that bottled up the memory like perfume and it never faded never got stained. Then whenever I wanted to, I could uncork the bottle and, and live the memory all over again."- "Rebecca"
"Nizar Qabbany "Quote:
20 years on love road , but it still unknown
one time I was killer, but more than time I was killed
20 years love book , but I still on first it page !
arabic poet
"I could not kill her, of course, as some have thought. You see, i loved her. It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight." - H.H.
fell in love with it as soon as i read it. im finished reading it now. :] great book.
Youth, Beautiful Youth Hermann Hesse
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To be up and about outdoors at night, beneath the silent sky and beside quietly flowing water, is always mysterious and stirs the soul to its very depths. At such times we are close to our origins; we feel a kinship with animals and plants, feel dim memories of a primeval life before houses and town were built, when man, the homeless wanderer, could regard the woods, streams, mountains, wolves, and hawks as his equals and could love them as friends or hate them as deadly foes. Night also removes our customary sense of community life, when lights are no longer heard, one who is still awake feels solitary and sees himself parted from others and thrown upon his own resources.
I hate to post twice in a row, but I just came upon this quote in my reading and found it very interesting.
The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco
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Books are not meant to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means.
"To tell the truth is a very difficult thing; and young people are rarely capable of it."
--Tolstoy, War and Peace
:thumbs_up Excellent quote from the very book I'm currently reading. In fact, I just read that a few days ago. Here's a companion:Quote:
Originally Posted by curlyqlink
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Originally Posted by War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy
"Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part."
Moby-Dick
The Fountainhead ~ Ayn Rand
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This is pity, he thought, and than he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue.
PROCTOR, laughs insanely, then:A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth! For them that quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now when you know in all your black hearts that this be fraud-God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!"
-The Crucible, Arthur Miller
A small collection of quotes from Dune
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How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
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Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
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The concept of progress is a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
"Welcome to the bickering world of theoretical physics, where one professor's theory is claptrap to all the others and 1,000 rival theories abound."
Time by Alexander Waugh, quite readable and entertaining as well as education-based
"'Don't feel sorry for yourself,' he said. 'Only arseholes do that.'"
from Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
From 'The Plague' by Albert Camus.Quote:
"Since the order of world is regulated by death, perhaps is it better for God we do not believe in him and we fight with all our might against death, without raising our eyes heavenward where he keeps silent."
from What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
(title by permission of Raymond Carver's widow)
"No matter how much long-distance running might suit me, of course there are days when I feel kind of lethargic and don't want to run. Actually it happens a lot."
"Up till then I'd made it a point of pride that no matter how hard things might get, I never walked. A marathon is a running event, after all, not a walking event. But in that one race, even walking was a problem."
"In most cases lerning something essential in life requires physical pain."
2008 book trans. Japanese to English from this apparently famous author; found it in the new book section at a college library entrance.
A combo of a writer's and runner memoir; a meditation about life and the passage of 20-25 yrs. or so. Very pleasant reading.