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“Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together. ”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre , Nausea

“В разговоре с женщиной есть один болезненный момент. Ты приводишь
факты, доводы, аргументы. Ты взываешь к логике и здравому смыслу. И
неожиданно обнаруживаешь, что ей противен сам звук твоего голоса...”
― Dovlatov S.

“У хорошего человека отношения с женщинами всегда складываются трудно. А я человек хороший. Заявлено без тени смущения, потому что гордиться тут нечем. От хорошего человека ждут соответствующего поведения. К нему предъявляют высокие требования. Он тащит на себе ежедневный мучительный груз благородства, ума, прилежания, совести, юмора.”
― Sergei Dovlatov, The Compromise