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“Förnuftets näsduk torkar inte känslans gråt.”
― Verner Aspenström

“Why should not a writer be permitted to make use of the levers of fear, terror and horror because some feeble soul here and there finds it more than it can bear? Shall there be no strong meat at table because there happen to be some guests there whose stomachs are weak, or who have spoiled their own digestions?”
― E.T.A. Hoffmann

“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.”
― Hannah Arendt

“ДЕ Е БЪЛГАРИЯ?

Ако някой ме пита
какво е родина -
стомна, пътьом напита,
щрихи дим над комина,
тук-там прашни портрети
на поети опети,
спят селцата на пръсти
(да не чуе поп Кръстьо),
бялва нощем в браздата
на Сивушка душата,
месечина гореща
пали кървави свещи
и с око зачервено
над чукарите гледа
как, изпънала вени,
запотена и бледа,
със сълзи като сажди
и раздрано сукманче
една българка
ражда
американче.”
― Мая Дългъчева, Приказки за малките неща

“Светът - това е нещо много красиво - отвърна Костенурко. - Не можеш да си представиш по-красиво нещо. Направено е от вода и суша, като е спазена следната пропорция: две трети вода и една трета суша.
- Много са го разводнили - разочарова се лисичето.”
― Борис Априлов, Приключенията на Лиско по море

“In a room where
people unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of truth
sounds like a pistol shot.”
― Czesław Miłosz

“To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.”
― Czesław Miłosz

“No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning.”
― Juliusz Słowacki

“Be courageous when the mind deceives you
Be courageous
In the final account only this is important”
― Zbigniew Herbert

“София се възползва от най-лесния изход за нуждаещите се и ужасените - тя заспа.”
― Tove Jansson, The Summer Book

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

“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible

“One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

“Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Rama II

“A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, The Exploration of Space

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.”
― Max Frisch

“Technology is the knack of arranging the world in such a way that you don't have to experience it.”
― Max Frisch, Homo Faber

“It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.”
― Max Frisch

“You can put anything into words, except your own life”
― Max Frisch

“When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.”
― Max Frisch

“I don't trust Catholics," I said, "because they take advantage of you."
"And Protestants?" he asked with a laugh.
"I loathe the way they fumble around with their consciences."
"And atheists?" He was still laughing.
"They bore me because all they ever talk about is God.”
― Heinrich Böll, The Clown

“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.”
― Matsuo Bashō

“The journey itself is my home.”
― Matsuo Basho

“„Вашите собствени деца и внуци ли ви вдъхновиха, за да напишете книгите си?“ е също въпрос, който често ми задават. Искам да кажа следното: Никое друго дете не ме е вдъхновявало толкова, колкото детето, което аз самата бях. Не е задължително да имате деца, за да пишете детски книги. По-важното е добре да помните собственото си детство.”
― Астрид Линдгрен

“... може би ще срещна някоя локва по пътечките ... а във всяка локва, колкото и малка да е, ще има небе ...”
― Mercè Rodoreda, The Time of the Doves