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“Always a good dodge to simplify your problem by removing it.”
― Henry Miller, Black Spring

“ja znam da sloboda znači odgovornost.isto tako znam kako se lako želja može pretvoriti u čin. čak i kad sklopim oči, moram paziti kako sanjam i o čemu, jer samo najtanji veo deli tada san od jave.”
― Henry Miller, The World Of Sex

“Kad razmišljam o seksu, ja razmišljam o njemu kao o oblasti koja je tek djelomično istražena; veći dio ostaje, bar za mene, tajanstven i nepoznat, i možda se nikad neće ni moći upoznati. To isto vrijedi i za druge aspekte životne snage. Mi možda znamo nešto ili mnogo, ali što dalje prodiremo, obzorje se sve više gubi. Okruženi smo morem snaga koje kao da prkose našoj slabašnoj pameti. Ništa nećemo naučiti dok ne prihvatimo činjenicu da se sam život zasniva na tajni.”
― Henry Miller

“We'll Go No More A-roving

So, we'll go no more a-roving
So late into the night,
Though the heart still be as loving,
And the moon still be as bright.

For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause to breathe,
And love itself have rest.

Though the night was made for loving,
And the day returns too soon,
Yet we'll go no more a-roving
By the light of the moon.”
― Lord Byron, Byron: Poetical Works

“Nikada ništa nije bacao jer je naučio da i najnezanimljivije stvari odjednom mogu postati zanimljive. Pesimisti bacaju stvari, vjerujući da se tako rješavaju prošlosti, a ustvari im nedostaje vjere u budućnost.”
― François Weyergans

“- Platone, zašto pijete?
Nekoliko koraka napravio je šutke i onda rekao:
- Evo, i u tom slučaju većina ljudi taj problem rješava pogrešno. Istina koju ne namjeravam poreći tužna je i sastoji se od ovoga: mi nismo alkoholičari zato što pijemo, ne, mi pijemo zato što smo alkoholičari.”
― Gajto Gazdanov

“The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or a woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.”
― Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love

“I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our thoughts, our intentions, our secret curses, our hidden hate.”
― Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love

“You haven't loved yet," he said. "You've only been trying to love; beginning to love. Trust alone is not love, illusion is not love, desire alone is not love. All these were paths leading you out of yourself, it is true, and so you thought they led to another, but you never reached the other. You were only on the way.”
― Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love

“The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”
― Stanley Fish

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

“Instead of condemning people, let’s try to understand them. Let’s try to figure out why they do what they do. That’s a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness. “To know all is to forgive all.”
― Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People

“Odande se svejedno povratih žalostan put Vignyja, misleći o tome kako mi svi ti ljudi, te stvari, te prljave i sumorne kuće više uopće ništa ne kazuju, onako izravno u srce kao nekoć, pa da ni ja sam, koliko sam god možda djelovao poput lisca, nemam više dovoljno snage, osjećao sam to dobro, da idem još dalje, tako, posve sam.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

“Zaludu ono što kažemo i tvrdimo, svijet nas ostavlja mnogo prije nego što zaista odemo. O stvarima do kojih si najviše držao jednog lijepog dana odlučuješ sve manje i manje govoriti, s naporom ako je već potrebno da se u to upuštaš. Čovjek je sit da vječito sebe sluša kako brblja... Sažimlje... Odustaje... Traje već punih trideset godina kako brblja... Više mu i nije do toga da ima pravo. U tebi čak popušta želja da zadržiš ono malo mjesto što si sebi pričuvao među užicima... Čovjeka hvata gađenje... Dovoljno mu je malo njupati, malo se ogrijati i spavati što više može na putu do ništavila. Za ponovo sudjelovanje u stvarima valjalo bi pronalaziti nove grimase koje bi izvodio pred drugima... Ali čovjek više nema snage mijenjati svoj repertoar. Gunđaš. Još i sada tražiš za se trikove i izgovore kako bi ostao tu, s njima, druzima, ali smrt je također tu, grozno smrdljiva, kraj tebe, sad za stalno i manje tajanstvena od partije belota. Za te ostaju dragocjene tek sitne tuge (...)”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

“Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth. And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn't enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I've never been able to kill myself.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

“There is something sad about people going to bed. You can see they don’t give a damn whether they’re getting what they want out of life or not, you can see they don’t ever try to understand what we’re here for. They just don’t care. Americans or not, they sleep no matter what, they’re bloated mollusks, no sensibility, no trouble with their conscience.
I’d seen too many troubling things to be easy in my mind. I knew too much and not enough. I’d better go out, I said to myself, I’d better go out again. Maybe I’ll meet Robinson. Naturally that was an idiotic idea, but I dreamed it up as an excuse for going out again, because no matter how I tossed and turned on my narrow bed, I couldn’t snatch the tiniest scrap of sleep. Even masturbation, at times like that, provides neither comfort nor entertainment. Then you're really in despair.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

“That is perhaps what we seek throughout life, that and nothing more, the greatest possible sorrow so as to become fully ourselves before dying.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

“S riječima nikad nismo dovoljno na oprezu, riječi se čine posve ništavne, svakako bezopasne, djeluju kao kakvi mali vjetrovi, mali glasovi iz usta, ni vrući ni hladni, i lako hvatani čim dopru kroz uho u golemu, sivu mlitavu dosadu mozga. Ne zaziremo od njih, riječi, i eto ti nesreće!”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline

“I could put up with heartbreaks and abortions and busted romances, but I had to have something under my belt to carry on, and I wanted something nourishing, something appetizing. I felt exactly like Jesus Christ would have felt if he had been taken down from the cross and not permitted to die in the flesh. I am sure that the shock of crucifixion would have been so great that he would have suffered a complete amnesia as regards humanity. I am certain that after his wounds had healed he wouldn't have given a damn about the tribulations of mankind but would have fallen with the greatest relish upon a fresh cup of coffee and a slice of toast, assuming he could have had it.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn

“Whoever, through too great love, which is monstrous after all, dies of his misery, is born again to know neither love nor hate, but to enjoy. And this joy of living, because it is unnaturally acquired, is a poison which eventually vitiates the whole world. Whatever is created beyond the normal limits of human suffering, acts as a boomerang and brings about destruction.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn

“Vi živite o plodovima svog djelovanja, a djelovanje vam je žetva misli.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn

“Ima pasa koji mogu dugo trpjeti u sebi svoj nemoćni bijes. Trgaju lanac, hropću i povraćaju od gušenja. Ali baš kod svakog dođe čas, kad se slomi. Jer kasno shvati da više neće moći ni milimetar napredovati. Uzalud mu je mučitelj pred nosom, za njega svejedno ostaje nedohvatljiv.
I tada se malom šibom naneseni sitni udarci po psećem nosu odjedanput samo zbroje. Uzalud je režanje, uzalud bijes, uzalud i snaga. Jednom će i najhrabriji pas otrčati i potražiti zaklon gdje će se htjeti skriti. Jer traži svoje skrovište i spas. Skvičeći se zavuče i skutri u bočno okrenuti sanduk od jabuka koji mu je dom zajedno s ubačenim komadom krpe. Ili potraži hrpu naslaganog ogrjevnog drva da se podvuče pod nju. Ili cvileći gura glavu bilo kamo. A od uzbuđenja mu usijano tijelo drhturi poput hladetine.
Ako pak nema druge onda glavu gurne među šape. Jer se slomio. I nikad više neće biti slobodno biće. Uzalud će ga pustiti s lanca. Lajat će jedino iz straha. I pritom strepiti. Toga se ja bojim. Zato sam radije zamislio da sam ja slobodan pa da mogu letjeti poput roda i lastavica.”
― Szilárd Borbély, The Dispossessed

“Forgetting," I said, "is probably as much a part of life as remembering. We're all amnesiacs.”
― Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved

“I suppose we are all products of our parents' joy and suffering. Their emotions are written into us, as much as the inscriptions made by their genes.”
― Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved

“Unatoč tim trenutačnim uvidima u nečiji život, platna i materijali na njima imali su neku apstraktnu odliku, krajnju prazninu koja je izražavala bizarnost same smrtnosti, osjećaj da, čak i ako sačuvamo svaku mrvicu života, nagomilamo ih na divovsku hrpu, a potom pažljivo prosijemo da izvučemo sva moguća značenja, sve to zajedno opet neće sastaviti jedan život.”
― Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved

“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“Godinama je njegovo praznovjerje da se stvarnost i istinske predodžbe mogu naći u razgovoru s pripadnicima radničke klase. Iako je sada jasno vidio da su njihove formule razmišljanja i govora jednako krute i šablonske, pa stoga i jednako daleko od bilo kakvog izraza istinitosti kao i formule svake druge klase, često bi i dalje znao uhvatiti sebe kako čeka, iracionalno vjerujući da bi im iz usta mogli izaći biseri mudrosti.”
― Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

“Duša je najumorniji dio tijela.”
― Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

“Prije dvadesete mislila sam da je život nešto što s vremenom dobiva sve veći zamah. Da iz godine u godinu postaje sve bogatiji i dublji. Da čovjek sve više uči, postaje mudriji, sve bolje shvaća, prodire dublje u istinu..." Oklijevala je.
Port se odjednom nasmije. "A sada znaš da nije tako. Zar ne? Više je kao da pušiš cigaretu. Prvih nekoliko dimova ima sjajan okus i ne pada ti napamet da ćeš ikad doći do kraja. Onda je počnešuzimati zdravo za gotovo. Odjednom shvatiš da je gotovo dogorjela. I tad postaneš svjesan gorkog okusa.”
― Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky