“Se zice că diavolul nu te lasă sa mori dacă n-ai făcut destule păcate, pentru că nu-i folosești la nimic. Tu vrei sa te spânzuri și el vine, îți taie creanga și te salvează.”
― De Blinde Masseur
― De Blinde Masseur
“Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'
hierarchies? and even if one of them
pressed me against his heart: I would be consumed
in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying.”
― Duino Elegies
hierarchies? and even if one of them
pressed me against his heart: I would be consumed
in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying.”
― Duino Elegies
“watched Lewis carefully without seeming to look at him, as you do when you are boxing, and I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Some people show evil as a great race horse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre. Lewis did not show evil; he just looked nasty.”
― A Moveable Feast
― A Moveable Feast
“Arăţi foarte bine, Elena. Totdeauna te îmbraci aşa cînd îi citeşti lui Ion?" am întrebat-o.
O clipă i s-au luminat ochii, apoi şi-a coborît privirile.
"Pentru Ion e totuna cum mă îmbrac, el tot nu vede. Dar o fac pentru cărţi."
"Nu înţeleg."
"Nu poţi să pui mîna pe asemenea cărţi cum pui mâna pe lopată. Trebuie să te speli pe mâini şi să te îmbraci curat.”
―
O clipă i s-au luminat ochii, apoi şi-a coborît privirile.
"Pentru Ion e totuna cum mă îmbrac, el tot nu vede. Dar o fac pentru cărţi."
"Nu înţeleg."
"Nu poţi să pui mîna pe asemenea cărţi cum pui mâna pe lopată. Trebuie să te speli pe mâini şi să te îmbraci curat.”
―
“She asked him why did he not write out his thoughts. For what, he asked her, with careful scorn. To compete with phrasemongers, incapable of thinking consecutively for sixty seconds? To submit himself to the criticisms of an obtuse middle class which entrusted its morality to policemen and its fine arts to impressarios?”
― Dubliners
― Dubliners
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