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“Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature.

Information is control.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.”
― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

“That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it.”
― Joan Didion

“I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I'm just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. To seize the moment. And if you ask me why you should bother to do that, I could tell you that the grave's a fine and private place, but none I think do there embrace. Nor do they sing there, or write, or argue, or see the tidal bore on the Amazon, or touch their children. And that's what there is to do and get it while you can and good luck at it.”
― Joan Didion

“To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.”
― Joan Didion

“One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen

“Beer is made by men, wine by God.”
― Martin Luther

“Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become decision and fate.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes

“Нека не е любов, нека е нещо единствено -
дума, която пред никой не съм изричала...
Но са предатели думите - били са и шепот и писък...
С какво да му кажа, че наистина го обичам?!”
― Камелия Кондова

“Голямата любов се умори
на мене всеки път да ми се случва.”
― Камелия Кондова

“И разбирам колко много нежност
разпилях, но не по който трябва.”
― Камелия Кондова, Малки смърти

“Като ви липсва чуждият скандал,
а вкъщи рогоносец си отглеждате -
не ме учете, моля, на морал.
Защото леко ще си вдигна веждата!
Едната вежда само - ясен знак,
но за глупаци трябва да превеждам:
"Не преминавай, ако си глупак -
оръжие е синьото под веждата!"
Ще стрелям със висока тишина.
А пък когато денонощно плачете -
не ме учете, моля, на сълза.
Видях я във окото на палача си.
И я изпих. Една сълза - гигант.
Преди да вдигна другата си вежда.
Не ме учете, моля, на талант.
И не рога - таланта си отглеждайте.
Той е раним. И ражда мъртъв плод.
/От злобата таланта абортира./
Не ме учете, моля, на живот.

Понякога приживе се умира.”
― Камелия Кондова

“Never marry a man unless you can sit with him reading a book and feel perfectly comfortable. If it makes you nervous to sit quietly with him while you read, feeling like you need to entertain him or provide conversation, then this would not be the person you should spend your life with. You should feel free to just be when you are with him.”
― Belle Blackburn

“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

“Виновни сме, че дълго сме живели
един без друг.”
― Камелия Кондова, Малки смърти

“Да си купим мълчание. Да си купим със рестото - слово.
И тогава, любими - който още обича - да каже.
Но онази китара няма как да си купим отново.
Тя изпя песента си - и за нас, и за мъртвите даже.”
― Камелия Кондова

“И какво, че целувах - като принцът отново е жаба.
Просто локви обича, а пък аз не съм го разбрала.”
― Камелия Кондова

“My purely practical advice: Don't get excited. Don't raise your voice. Bite back. Bite back hard, but never cry.”
― Siri Hustvedt, A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind

“But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Grief is a swallow,” he said. “One day you wake up and you think it's gone, but it's only migrated to some other place, warming its feathers. Sooner or later, it will return and perch in your heart again.”
― Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

“Ние сме онова, което прави от нас любовта.
Срещне те стар познат и се провикне: - Какво става с тебе? Не мога да те позная!
Ние сме онова, което кара другите да кажат: - Не си ти!
Ние сме онова, което кара самите нас да се изплашим: - Какво става с мене? Не мога да се позная!
Всичко онова, което ни сковава в собствени граници, не сме ние.
Ние сме, когато станем своята противоположност.
Когато се изскубнем от верижката и изненадаме себе си.
Ние сме онова, което прави от нас любовта.”
― Blaga Dimitrova, Лавина

“Wisdom is earned, not given”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“Deep rivers run quiet.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“We do not become satisfied by leading a peaceful and prosperous existence. Rather, we become satisfied when reality matches our expectations. The bad news is that as conditions improve, expectations balloon.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: Breve historia del mañana