Ledger Kitty Denis

“In the age of slaves, the freeman had still outnumbered them, and now, in the "age of freedom", for the first time liberty had fled from the majority. Genius, statecraft, the very power of leadership having become suspect in a world where the one essential criterion - mediocrity - gives us the comfortable assurance that no leader shall possess any qualities whatsoever above our own immediate comprehension, man has made sure that no man shall be free.”
― Adrian Conan Doyle, Heaven has Claws

“Sigur, intuiţia morţii proprii (care este un
fapt tîrziu, o descoperire uimită, cum de nu
mi‑am dat seama ?) produce în minţile noastre măcar o tresărire : „Aha, peste x ani, sau peste x zile, sau peste un ceas, sau peste un minut, sau peste o secundă, sau chiar acum, nu voi mai fi, iar acest univers indiferent, care n‑a constatat niciodată prezenţa mea în cuprinsul lui, nu‑mi va constata nici absenţa. Asta este !”.
Dar, de obicei, intuiţia cu pricina nu devine o obsesie, nu cădem în nevroza aşteptării, dimpotrivă, trăim ca şi cum nu vom muri niciodată şi nu ne gîndim clipă de clipă la sfîrşit, cum cerea stăruitor acelaşi Lucius Annaeus Seneca, într‑un „exerciţiu spiritual”.”
― Valeriu Gherghel, Roata plăcerilor: de ce n-au iubit unii înţelepţi cărţile?

“Clotilde, Miss Marple thought, was certainly no Ophelia, but she would have made a magnificent Clytemnestra---she could have stabbed a husband in his bath with exultation. But since she had never had a husband, that solution wouldn’t do. Miss Marple could not see her murdering anyone else but a husband---and there had been no
Agamemnon in this house.”
― Agatha Christie, Nemesis

“Geode.”
― Mickaël Launay, It All Adds Up: The Story of People and Mathematics