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“Dacă dragoste nu e, nimic nu e.”
― Marin Preda

“If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe- some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they're born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cakes than others- some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of men.
But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal- there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating: It is either good or bad. ”
― Salvador Dali

“Dar te întreb eu acum: de ce totul trebuie trăit? De ce totul trebuie consumat? N-ajunge că sîntem siliți să mîncăm? Trebuie să ne mîncăm și sufletele? Unde scrie asta? Adică cum, nu putem păstra în sufletul nostru și lucruri netrăite? Trebuie neapărat să înghițim tot ce e pe lume? De ce? Ca să avem pe urmă ce vărsa în mormîntul în care o să fim băgați? E o veche întrebare a mea la care rămîn..Am iubit o fată! Nu-mi ajunge? De ce trebuie alta? Și acum ascultă: Am vrut o dată să schimb lumea! Nu-mi ajunge? De ce trebuie s-o iau de la cap și să merg pînă în pînzele albe?”
― Marin Preda, Marele singuratic

“Ținea la el! Ei, și? Și el ținea la ea, și unde scrie că lucrul cel mai potrivit care urmau să-l facă ei doi era să-și răpească unul altuia libertatea? Numai pentru că dintre atîția bărbați ți-a plăcut la un moment dat unul singur? Acest moment dat nu e numai un ”moment”, cum spune și cuvîntul, adică ceva trecător, dar mai e și ”dat”, adică impus de împrejurări. Nu e deci clar că valoarea lui dispare îndată ce dispar împrejurările?”
― Marin Preda, Marele singuratic

“Nimeni n-are drept asupra a nimic, decât asupra muncii braţelor sau a minţii lui.”
― Marin Preda, Moromeții I

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“A trăi înseamnă a fi neliber prin iubire.”
― Gabriel Liiceanu, Scrisori către fiul meu

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Scopul existenței fiecărui individ este plăcerea și cine o contestă ori e ipocrit, ori imbecil.”
― Rodica Ojog-Braşoveanu, O toaletă à la Liz Taylor

“Nu toți oamenii știu să fie tineri.”
― Rodica Ojog-Braşoveanu, Cianură pentru un surâs

“...and when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment...”
― Plato, The Symposium

“According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.”
― Plato, The Symposium

“Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.”
― Plato, The Symposium

“Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.”
― Plato, The Symposium

“But remember, our hearts and our bodies are given to us only once. Most of us can’t help but live as though we’ve got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between. But there’s only one, and before you know it, your heart is worn out, and, as for your body, there comes a point when no one looks at it, much less wants to come near it.”
― André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name

“Everyone goes through a period of Traviamento - when we take, say, a different turn in life, the other via. Dante himself did. Some recover, some pretend to recover, some never come back, some chicken out before even starting, and some, for fear of taking any turns, find themselves leading the wrong life all life long.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!”
― Andre Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“The world isn't in your books and maps, it's out there.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Light is the left hand of darkness
and darkness the right hand of light.
Two are one, life and death, lying
together like lovers in kemmer,
like hands joined together,
like the end and the way.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“If civilization has an opposite, it is war.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“A man wants his virility regarded. A woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. [Here] one is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience.”
― Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke