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“Why do you go cold?" He kept his voice gentle.
"I - I've analysed it. Because I have the sort of good looks I have. People treat you as a kind of ;possession; if you have a certain sort of good looks. Not lively, but sort of clear-cut and-"
"Beautiful."
"Yes, why not. You can become a property or an idol. I don't want that. It kept happening"
"It needn't."
"Even you - drew back - when we met. I expect that now. I use it."
"Yes. But you don't want - do you - to be alone always. Or do you?"
"I feel as she did. I keep my defences up because I must go on ;doing my work;. I know how she felt about her unbroken egg. Her self-possession, her autonomy. I don't want to think of that going. You understand?”
― Possession
"I - I've analysed it. Because I have the sort of good looks I have. People treat you as a kind of ;possession; if you have a certain sort of good looks. Not lively, but sort of clear-cut and-"
"Beautiful."
"Yes, why not. You can become a property or an idol. I don't want that. It kept happening"
"It needn't."
"Even you - drew back - when we met. I expect that now. I use it."
"Yes. But you don't want - do you - to be alone always. Or do you?"
"I feel as she did. I keep my defences up because I must go on ;doing my work;. I know how she felt about her unbroken egg. Her self-possession, her autonomy. I don't want to think of that going. You understand?”
― Possession

“Sunt fiinţe cari prin câte ceva, uneori fără a şti ce anume, deşteaptă în noi o vie curiozitate, aţâţându-ne închipuirea să făurească asupra-le mici romane.”
― Craii de Curtea-Veche
― Craii de Curtea-Veche

“Dacă eşti atent la ceea ce se întâmplă în jur, nu se poate să nu îţi acorzi o şansă, mai ales că nimic în viaţă nu se desfăşoară după o logică riguroasă. În definitiv, câţi dintre cei convinşi de absurditatea existenţei s-au sinucis? Luciditatea, perfectă, sau cea care ne este dată nouă, te obligă să trăieşti oricum, din umor, să vezi pur şi simplu ce se mai întâmplă, nu de alta, dar, raportată la durata materiei, existenţa ta este practic egală cu zero, nici nu trăieşti în realitate. Când eşti născut cu sentimentul timpului, când acesta te tiranizează, îţi dai seama că, de fapt, judecânt la rece, nu cunoşti viaţa şi nici n-ai timp, or, în acest caz, cum să curmi ceea ce nu cunoşti?”
― Feţele tăcerii
― Feţele tăcerii

“The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms

“- Esti nebuna?
- Sunt, da, nebuna. Si vreau sa fii si tu nebun ca mine, sa fim doi nebuni, care se iubesc la nebunie...”
― Scrisoare de dragoste
- Sunt, da, nebuna. Si vreau sa fii si tu nebun ca mine, sa fim doi nebuni, care se iubesc la nebunie...”
― Scrisoare de dragoste
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