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“Am citit undeva, excelenţă, zise Apostol cu glasul de adineauri, că inima omului, în primele săptămâni ale vieţii embrionare, se află nu în piept, ci în cap, în mijlocul creierilor, şi că de-abia pe urmă coboară mai jos, despărţindu-se de creier pentru totdeauna... Ce minunat ar fi, excelenţă, dacă inima şi creierul ar fi rămas împreună, îngemănate, să nu facă niciodată inima ce nu vrea creierul şi mai cu seamă creierul să nu facă ce sfâşie inima!”
― Liviu Rebreanu, Pădurea spânzuraţilor

“Vei pricepe multe lucruri nevăzute, căci viaţa şi lumea sunt pline de taine grele. Să năzuieşti mereu a dobândi stima oamenilor, şi mai ales pe a ta însuţi. De aceea sufletul tău să fie totdeauna la fel cu gândul, gândul cu vorba şi vorba cu fapta, căci numai astfel vei obţine un echilibru statornic între lumea ta şi lumea din afară! Ca bărbat, să-ţi faci datoria şi să nu uiţi niciodată că eşti român!...”
― Liviu Rebreanu, Pădurea spânzuraţilor

“Numai când e singur omul cu sufletul său, numai atunci există un echilibru între lumea lui cea mică dinăuntru şi restul universului; îndată ce intervine realitatea de-afară, omul devine o jucărie neputincioasă, fără voinţă adevărată, mergând încotro îl mână puteri şi hotărâri străine de fiinţa lui...”
― Liviu Rebreanu, Pădurea spânzuraţilor

“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

“Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues
Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

“Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

“No matter how long I live, I shall live longer than you will love me”
― Alexandre Dumas fils, Camille

“Everything was believed except the truth.”
― Alexandre Dumas fils, La Dame aux Camélias

“Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love; they never allow you to wound their self-esteem.”
― Alexandre Dumas fils, La dame aux camélias

“Năiță Lucean își dădu seama că el de fapt nu fusese niciodată tânăr și de capul lui și în putere să facă el cum vrea el, căci tinerețea lui se trecuse în război, și copiii veniseră sfoară, unul după altul, și el nu mai avusese când să fie tânăr și să facă el cum i-ar fi trecut lui prin cap și că de fapt niciodată nu se gândise la nimic altceva decât cum să încherbe sărăcia și s-o lege la gură ca să poată dormi și el o noapte fără s-o audă strigându-l să se scoale și să se apuce de treabă.”
― Dinu Săraru, Niște țărani

“you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."
Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me.
Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“How did you go bankrupt?"
Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“I am always in love.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“This is a good place," he said.
"There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“He'll never be frightened. He knows too damn much.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch."
"Yes."
"It's sort of what we have instead of God.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“I say that is wine," Brett held up her glass. "We ought to toast something. 'Here's to royalty.'"
"This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. you don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. you lose the taste."
Brett's glass was empty.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“The road to hell is paved with unbought stuffed animals”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“You'll lose it, if you talk about it”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“The bulls are my best friends."
I translated to Brett.
"You kill your friends?" she asked.
"Always," he said in English, and laughed. "So they don't kill me.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises