Quotes - Mishel (hejshel) (Spain) Showing 1-30 of 70

#1

“What did he mean by "society"? The plural of human beings?”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

#2

“The poet has an obligation to dissect his own corpse and reveal the symptoms of its illness to the world.”
― Sōseki Natsume, The Three-Cornered World

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#3

“La liberté de penser, et de mal penser et de penser peu, la liberté de choisir moi-même ma vie, de me choisir moi-même. Je ne peux dire ˝d´être moi-même˝, puisque je n´étais rien qu´une pâte modelable, mais celle de refuser les moules.”
― Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse

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#4

“I always wanted to ask people: “Are you in love? What are you reading?”
― Françoise Sagan, A Certain Smile

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#5

“I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

tags: deceit, deception, human, life

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#6

“Remembering is only a new form of suffering.”
― Charles Baudelaire

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#7

“Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.”
― Charles Baudelaire

tags: beauty, strangeness

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#8

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Françoise Sagan

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#9

“He amado hasta llegar a la locura; y eso a lo que llaman locura, para mi, es la única forma sensata de amar.”
― Françoise Sagan

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#10

“Las causas no podemos reconocerlas nunca, todo lo que percibimos son los efectos. Lo que identificamos como causa en realidad no es más que un… presagio. Si suelto este lápiz, se caerá al suelo. Que el hecho de soltarlo constituya la causa de la caída puede creerlo un estudiante, pero yo no. Soltarlo es sencillamente el presagio infalible de la caída.”
― Gustav Meyrink, The Green Face

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#11

“- ¿Pero ahora se le ocurre comprar perro, señorito?

- No lo he comprado, Domingo; este perro no es esclavo, sino que es libre; lo he encontrado.

- Vamos, si, es expósito.

- Todos somos expósitos, Domingo”
― Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla

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#12

“Los vagos son ellos, los que dicen que trabajan y no hacen sino aturdirse y ahogar el pensamiento".”
― Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla

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#13

“Yo no vivía, y ahora vivo; pero ahora que vivo es cuando siento lo que es morir”
― Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla

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#14

“Sumido en la niebla de su vida”
― Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla

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#15

“I believe that words uttered in passion contain a greater living truth than do those words which express thoughts rationally conceived. It is blood that moves the body. Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.”
― Natsume Soseki, Kokoro

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#16

“A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.”
― Simone Weil, Waiting for God

tags: feminism, mysticism

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#17

“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
― Simone Weil

tags: ethics, evil, good, morality, reality

698 likes

#18

“Love is not consolation. It is light.”
― Simone Weil

tags: light, love

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#19

“True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.”
― Simone Weil

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#20

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

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

176982 likes

#21

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep

127095 likes

#22

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

119048 likes

#24

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

92160 likes

#25

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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#26