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“Este destul de greu să-ți dai seama ce-ai simșit pe moment sau ce s-a întâmplat cu adevărat, după ce se termină totul.”
― Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced

“One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.”
― Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced

“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind

“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.”
― Hannah Arendt

“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.”
― Hannah Arendt

“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. ... Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

“The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.”
― Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

“A line came into my mind, something that Hannah Arendt once said about the poet Auden: that life had manifested the heart's invisible furies on his face.”
― John Boyne, The Heart's Invisible Furies

“The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.”
― Hannah Arendt

“It's what's in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy.”
― Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced

“In an English village, you turn over a stone and have no idea what will crawl out.
Miss Marple”
― Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced

“People in the dark are quite different, aren’t they?”
― Agatha Christie, A Murder is Announced

“Of course, if you’ve made up your mind about it, you’ll find an answer to everything.”
― Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Poate că la fel stau lucrurile și cu Josefine și cântecul ei; admirăm la ea ceea ce nu admirăm deloc la noi înșine; de altfel, în această din urmă privință, ea este întru totul de acord cu noi.”
― Kafka Franz, The Metamorphosis

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“Perhaps it is the same with Josephine and her song; we admire in her what we do not admire at all in ourselves; besides, in the latter respect she agrees with us entirely.”
― Kafka Franz

“Nu avem timp să citim totul de-a fir a păr, nu avem timp nici măcar să citim titlurile tuturor cărților, nu avem timp nici măcar să citim prima literă din titlurile tuturor cărților. Haosul livresc e desăvîrșit și e definitiv.”
― Valeriu Gherghel, Breviarul sceptic. Și alte eseuri despre simplitate

“„Mă gândesc că există, la periferia lumii, oameni umili, care n-au avut șansa să găsească vreun leac, să cerceteze bacili și gene la microscop, care n-au militat pentru pace în Agora veche și n-au participat niciodată la Marele Marș (pomenit de Milan Kundera într-un roman cunoscut) și nu pot să nu mă întreb: oare acești smeriți nu au dreptul la sens? Sensul e pentru toți sau pentru nimeni. Iată, am un prieten tânăr, a făcut un cancer, vorbește de sfârșit cu o seninătate care mă uluiește, scrie poezii emoționante, ia moartea în râs, ceea ce eu nu pot să fac. Unde e sensul și binele în viața lui? Să nu-mi răspundeți că o Instanță obscură îl pune la încercare, că suferința lui concretă de zi cu zi are sens, că e o ipostază a lui Iov. Iov nu trebuie clonat”.”
― Valeriu Gherghel

“Sigur, intuiţia morţii proprii (care este un
fapt tîrziu, o descoperire uimită, cum de nu
mi‑am dat seama ?) produce în minţile noastre măcar o tresărire : „Aha, peste x ani, sau peste x zile, sau peste un ceas, sau peste un minut, sau peste o secundă, sau chiar acum, nu voi mai fi, iar acest univers indiferent, care n‑a constatat niciodată prezenţa mea în cuprinsul lui, nu‑mi va constata nici absenţa. Asta este !”.
Dar, de obicei, intuiţia cu pricina nu devine o obsesie, nu cădem în nevroza aşteptării, dimpotrivă, trăim ca şi cum nu vom muri niciodată şi nu ne gîndim clipă de clipă la sfîrşit, cum cerea stăruitor acelaşi Lucius Annaeus Seneca, într‑un „exerciţiu spiritual”.”
― Valeriu Gherghel, Roata plăcerilor: de ce n-au iubit unii înţelepţi cărţile?

“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Personally I take more satisfaction in understanding people than in passing judgement on them.”
― Stefan Zweig, Chess Story

“Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind.”
― Andrew George, The Epic of Gilgamesh