Alex Arslan > Alex's Quotes

“Si vuestra vida diaria os parece pobre, no le echéis la culpa; culpaos a vos, decíos que no sos lo suficientemente poeta como para invocar sus riquezas, ya que para el creador no existe la pobreza ni ningún lugar pobre e indiferente. Y si os encontraras en una prisión cuyas paredes no os permitieran percibir ninguno de los sonidos del mundo, ¿acaso no tendríais aún vuestra infancia, las deliciosas riquezas dignas de un rey que descansan en la cámara del tesoro de la memoria?”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Cartas a un joven poeta / Elegías de Duino

“Para terminar querría aconsejaros ir creciendo de manera tranquila y sincera siguiendo vuestra propia evolución; la manera más probable de dificultar vuestra evolución es mirar al exterior y esperar del exterior repuestas a preguntas que tal vez solo pueda responder vuestro más íntimo sentimiento en su momento de mayor silencio.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Cartas a un joven poeta / Elegías de Duino

“Leed en la medida de lo posible pocos textos estéticos-críticos: se trata bien de opiniones partidistas, fosilizadas y que han ido perdiendo sentido en un anquilosamiento sin vida, o bien de hábiles juegos de palabras con el que hoy se demuestra un punto de vista y mañana el opuesto. Las obras artísticas son de una soledad interminable y la forma menos adecuada de abarcarlas es la crítica. Solo el amor puede abrazarlas y conservarlas y ofrecer una contraprestación justa.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Cartas a un joven poeta / Elegías de Duino

“You're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, who knows,' he replied.
'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently.
'I protest!' Behemoth exclaimed hotly. 'Dostoevsky is immortal!”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out! Follow me, my reader, and me alone, and I will show you such a love!”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal—there's the trick!”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Once upon a time there was a lady. She had no children, and no happiness either. And at first she cried for a long time, but then she became wicked...”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar’s vile tongue be cut out!”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“I wouldn’t like to meet you when you’ve got a revolver,” said Margarita with a coquettish look at Azazello. She had a passion for people who did things well.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis

“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Courage, dear heart.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”
― C.S. Lewis