George Samuel C > George Samuel C's Quotes

“Question your tea spoons.”
― Georges Perec, Species of Spaces and Other Pieces

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood

“I thought, Hatred is vital to good health, and I thought, To find ourselves in harmony with the world is a lethal infection.”
― António Lobo Antunes, Act of the Damned

“A melhor maneira de lidar com os outros é tomá-los por aquilo que eles acham que são e deixá-los em paz.”
― António Lobo Antunes

“We take that which is unreal to be real and that which is real to be unreal.”
― Rupert Spira, The Transparency of Things

“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.”
― Carl Jung

“Always tell the truth. It's the easiest thing to remember.”
― David Mamet

“It's only words... unless they're true.”
― David Mamet

“So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“It takes two to make an accident.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind…”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Human sympathy has its limits.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Great Gatsby

“Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.”
― Michel Houellebecq, Platform

“Viver é como escrever sem corrigir.”
― António Lobo Antunes

“Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”
― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

“I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.”
― Michel Foucault

“Philosophy does not serve the State or the Church, who have other concerns. It serves no established power. The use of philosophy is to sadden. A philosophy that saddens no one, that annoys no one, is not a philosophy. It is useful for harming stupidity, for turning stupidity into something shameful.”
― Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy

“Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.”
― Thomas Bernhard, Correction