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“Θυμάμαι πόσο βαθιά πληγώθηκα όταν ύστερα από κάποιους μήνες στην ασφάλεια, με πετάξανε σ’ ένα τζιπ, δεμένο με χειροπέδες παρόλο που δεν μπορούσα να σταθώ όρθιος, περπάταγα με τα τέσσερα, με φορτώνουν, που λες, σ' ένα τζιπ για το Γεντί Κουλέ. Ήξερα ότι πάω για θάνατο , μου το 'χαν πει σ' όλους τους τόνους στην ασφάλεια. Ήταν Σάββατο απόγευμα, καλοκαίρι. Θα 'χε μπει για τα καλά ο Ιούλιος. Περνάγαμε απ' το Βαρδάρι, είχαν σκολάσει τα μαγαζιά, ο κόσμος μυρμήγκιαζε στους δρόμους, φορτωμένος ψώνια. Ακούμπησα τα χέρια μου με τις χειροπέδες στο παραπέτο του τζιπ, μια ματιά, μια ματιά… Ο ένας από τους χαφιέδες με κατάλαβε. «Βλέπεις ρε μαλάκα; Ποιος νοιάζεται για σένα; Λες ότι πας να πεθάνεις γι’ αυτούς, ποιος σε ξέρει; Τους βλέπεις; Κάνουν τα ψώνια τους, θα πάνε σπίτι τους, αύριο στα βαποράκια, Περαία, Μπαξέ, Αρετσού, θάλασσα, παιχνίδι, κορίτσια, ποιος νοιάζεται για σένα, μαλάκα; Πας για εκτέλεση, κι είσαι μονάχα δεκάξι χρονών...»”
― ... καλά, ἐσύ σκοτώθηκες νωρίς
― ... καλά, ἐσύ σκοτώθηκες νωρίς
“Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort that would look exciting to the outward eye.”
― The Conquest of Happiness
― The Conquest of Happiness
“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
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“It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.”
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“To all the talented young men who wander about feeling that there is nothing in the world for them to do, I should say: 'Give up trying to write, and, instead, try not to write. Go out into the world; become a pirate, a king in Borneo, a labourer in Soviet Russia; give yourself an existence in which the satisfaction of elementary physical needs will occupy almost all your energies.' I do not recommend this course of action to everyone, but only to those who suffer from the disease which Mr Krutch diagnoses. I believe that, after some years of such an existence, the ex-intellectual will fin that in spite of is efforts he can no longer refrain from writing, and when this time comes his writing will not seem to him futile.”
― The Conquest of Happiness
― The Conquest of Happiness
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