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  • #1
    “Човек като мене, жаден за спокойствие, крачка не може да направи, без да се сблъска с човешката глупост! Защото в дъното на всяка трагедия е глупостта!”
    Тадеуш Доленга-Мостович, Znachor

  • #2
    Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz
    “Възрастта не е само въпрос на време, но и на развоя на индивида в същото това време, въпрос на постиженията на индивида вътре в него и извън него. Въпрос на умственото му и духовно съзряване, въпрос на общественото положение.”
    Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz, Znachor

  • #3
    Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz
    “Човек, ако иска да научи нещо, трябва да страда.”
    Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz, Znachor

  • #4
    “When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think”
    Tom Schulman, Dead Poets Society: The Screenplay

  • #5
    N.H. Kleinbaum
    “You must strive to find your own voice, boys, and the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all.”
    N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

  • #6
    N.H. Kleinbaum
    “... there is a great need in all of us to be accepted, but you must trust what is unique or different about yourself, even if it is odd or unpopular.”
    N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

  • #7
    Suzanne Collins
    “Stupid people are dangerous.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #8
    Wiesław Myśliwski
    “Książki (...) to jedyny ratunek, żeby człowiek nie zapomniał, że jest człowiekiem. (...) Książki to także świat, i to świat, który człowiek sobie wybiera, a nie na który przychodzi.”
    Wiesław Myśliwski, Traktat o łuskaniu fasoli

  • #9
    Andrzej Sapkowski
    “Lepiej zaliczać się do niektórych niż do wszystkich.”
    Andrzej Sapkowski, Krew elfów

  • #10
    Andrzej Sapkowski
    “Intolerance and superstition has always been the domain of the more stupid amongst the common folk and, I conjecture, will never be uprooted, for they are as eternal as stupidity itself. There, where mountains tower today, one day there will be seas; there where today seas surge, will one day be deserts. But stupidity will remain stupidity. Nicodemus de Boot, Meditations on life, Happiness and Prosperity”
    Andrzej Sapkowski, Blood of Elves

  • #11
    Andrzej Sapkowski
    “Let them call me a traitor and a coward. Because I, Yarpen Zigrin, coward, traitor and renegade, state that we should not kill each other. I state that we ought to live. Live in such a way that we don't, later, have to ask anyone for forgiveness.”
    Andrzej Sapkowski, Blood of Elves

  • #12
    Andrzej Sapkowski
    “always takes action. Wrongly or rightly; that is revealed later. But you should act, be brave, seize life by the scruff of the neck. Believe me, little one, you should only regret inactivity, indecisiveness, hesitation. You shouldn’t regret actions or decisions, even if they occasionally end in sadness and regret.”
    Andrzej Sapkowski, The Time of Contempt

  • #13
    Andrzej Sapkowski
    “In this rotten world, Zoltan Chivay, goodness, honesty and integrity become deeply engraved in the memory.”
    Andrzej Sapkowski, Baptism of Fire

  • #14
    Ken Kesey
    “All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.”
    Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

  • #15
    Ken Kesey
    “Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
    Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

  • #16
    Ken Kesey
    “He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.”
    Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

  • #17
    Andrzej Sapkowski
    “And now he was glowing with happiness, pride and a sense of importance, like every liar when his lies accidentally turn out to be true.”
    Andrzej Sapkowski, The Tower of Swallows

  • #18
    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “As the two-thousand-year-old saying goes, you can have eyes and still not see. But a hard life improves vision.”
    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward

  • #19
    Anatoly Rybakov
    “The smart tyrant flatters the people with words,while with deeds he destroys them.”
    Anatoli Rybakov, Дети Арбата. Книга 2: Страх

  • #20
    Anatoly Rybakov
    “Falsehood had become the morality of the society.People lied at every turn.”
    Anatoli Rybakov, Дети Арбата. Книга 2: Страх

  • #21
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #22
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #23
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #24
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #25
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desires that he had regarded himself as a man to whom more was permitted than to others.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #26
    Witold Gombrowicz
    “Starajcie się przezwyciężyć formę, wyzwolić się z formy. Przestańcie utożsamiać się z tym, co was określa. Próbujcie uchylić się wszelkiemu swemu wyrazowi. Nie ufajcie własnym słowom. Miejcie się na straży przed wiarą waszą i nie dowierzajcie uczuciom. Wycofajcie się z tego, czym jesteście na zewnątrz, i niech lęk was ogarnie przed wszelkim uzewnętrznieniem, tak właśnie, jak ptaszka drżenie ogarnia wobec węża. Albowiem jest błędny postulat, jakoby człowiek miał być określony, to znaczy niewzruszony w swoich ideach, kategoryczny w swoich deklaracjach, niewątpliwy w swej ideologii, stanowczy w swych gustach, odpowiedzialny za słowa i czyny, ustalony raz na zawsze w całym swoim sposobie bycia. Rozpatrzcie bliżej chimeryczność tego postulatu. Żywiołem naszym jest wieczysta niedojrzałość. Co dzisiaj myślimy, czujemy, będzie nieuniknienie głupstwem dla prawnuków. Lepiej tedy, abyśmy już dzisiaj uznali w tym porcję głupstwa, którą przyniesie czas… i ta siła, która was zmusza do przedwczesnej definicji, nie jest, jak sądzicie, siłą całkowicie ludzką. Niezadługo zdamy sobie sprawę, że już nie to jest najważniejsze: umierać za idee, style, tezy, hasła, wiary; i nie to także: utwierdzać się w nich i zamykać; ale co innego, ale to: wycofać się o krok i zdobyć dystans do wszystkiego, co nieustannie wydarza się z nami.”
    Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

  • #27
    Spencer Johnson
    “What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists.”
    Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese?
    tags: fear

  • #28
    Spencer Johnson
    “See what you're doing wrong, laugh at it, change and do better.”
    Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese?

  • #29
    Spencer Johnson
    “He knew sometimes some fear can be good. When you are afraid things are going to get worse if you don't do something, it can prompt you into action. But it is not good when you are afraid that it keeps you from doing anything.”
    Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese?

  • #30
    Anne Applebaum
    “In the train a Communist denied to me that there was a famine. I flung a crust of bread which I had been eating from my own supply into a spittoon. A peasant fellow-passenger fished it out and ravenously ate it. I threw an orange peel into the spittoon and the peasant again grabbed it and devoured it. The Communist subsided.”
    Anne Applebaum, Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine



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