Cristina Pavelean

“De obicei, oamenii îşi închipuie că se definesc
prin ocupaţiunile lor şi, în primul rând, prin activitatea lor socială; dar, omeneşte vorbind, ei se definesc mult mai bine prin iniţiativele pe care le iau singuri şi atunci când sunt liberi să facă orice.”
― Constantin Noica, Eseuri de duminică

“To get up in the morning, in the fullness of youth, and open a book--now that’s what I call vicious!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche , Ecce Homo

“Life is frightening, and it is frightening for a reason, and the reason is that it doesn’t matter which branch of a life we get to live, we are always the same rotten tree. I wanted to be many things in my life. All kinds of things. But if your life is rotten, it will be rotten no matter what you do. The damp rots the whole useless thing...”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Sometimes we burst out laughing like raving lunatics. If you suffer long enough, it almost becomes funny, and you can find yourself laughing at the most miserable situations. I guess it’s a kind of hysteria.”
― Masaji Ishikawa, A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea