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“Съчувствието е прекрасно нещо. Човек изпитва съчувствие, като види смачкана гъсеница. Извисяващо преживяване. Човек може да му се отдаде и да го разпръсне около себе си - все едно, че си отпуска колана. Няма защо да си стяга корема, сърцето или духа, когато е обзет от съчувствие. Трябва само да погледне надолу. Толкова е лесно. Като гледате нагоре, ви заболява вратът. Съчувствието е най-голямата добродетел. То оправдава страданието. По света трябва да има страдание, иначе как можем да сме добродетелни и да изпитваме съчувствие?... О, то има своя противоположност - но тя е толкова трудна и завладяваща... Възхищението, г-жо Джоунс, възхищението. Но то изисква много повече от отпускане на колан... Затова казвам, че всеки, когото не сме в състояние да съжалим, е покварен. Като Хауърд Роук.”
― Айн Ранд "Изворът"

“If there really is a complete unified theory that governs everything, it presumably also determines your actions. But it does so in a way that is impossible to calculate for an organism that is as complicated as a human being. The reason we say that humans have free will is because we can't predict what they will do.”
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

“You have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.”
― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City

“If you believe in love, you're setting yourself up to be disappointed.”
― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City

“Love is dangerous, if you know it's dangerous, that makes you treasure it, and you'll work harder to keep it.”
― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City

“I think, when men tell women to lose weight, it's a diversion from their own lack of size in certain areas.”
― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City

“He loved us not because we were lovable, but because He is love.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I was born knowing how to do three things - how to breathe, how to dream, and how to love you.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Lore

“Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she’s hosting the world’s biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot. Hot and understanding. Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me, I don’t mind, I’m the Cool Girl.

Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they’re fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl. For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men – friends, coworkers, strangers – giddy over these awful pretender women, and I’d want to sit these men down and calmly say: You are not dating a woman, you are dating a woman who has watched too many movies written by socially awkward men who’d like to believe that this kind of woman exists and might kiss them. I’d want to grab the poor guy by his lapels or messenger bag and say: The bitch doesn’t really love chili dogs that much – no one loves chili dogs that much! And the Cool Girls are even more pathetic: They’re not even pretending to be the woman they want to be, they’re pretending to be the woman a man wants them to be. Oh, and if you’re not a Cool Girl, I beg you not to believe that your man doesn’t want the Cool Girl. It may be a slightly different version – maybe he’s a vegetarian, so Cool Girl loves seitan and is great with dogs; or maybe he’s a hipster artist, so Cool Girl is a tattooed, bespectacled nerd who loves comics. There are variations to the window dressing, but believe me, he wants Cool Girl, who is basically the girl who likes every fucking thing he likes and doesn’t ever complain. (How do you know you’re not Cool Girl? Because he says things like: “I like strong women.” If he says that to you, he will at some point fuck someone else. Because “I like strong women” is code for “I hate strong women.”)”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“Because memory…is everything. Physically speaking, a memory is nothing but a specific combination of neurons firing together—a symphony of neural activity. But in actuality, it’s the filter between us and reality. You think you’re tasting this wine, hearing the words I’m saying, in the present, but there’s no such thing. The neural impulses from your taste buds and your ears get transmitted to your brain, which processes them and dumps them into working memory—so by the time you know you’re experiencing something, it’s already in the past. Already a memory.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“We don’t have an intelligence problem. We have a compassion problem. That, more than any other single factor, is what’s driving us toward extinction.”
― Blake Crouch, Upgrade