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The Way of Kings
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by Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
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“САКРАЛЬНОЕ ОТСТУПЛЕНИЕ “Принципу Алеф (изначальному движению, первотолчку от Кетера к Хохме) соответствует Шут — символ божественной силы до манифестации, способной строить и рушить миры. Но Вселенной еще нет, и потому Алеф—только шут, ноль, ничто, пустота, которая может стать чем угодно, то есть абсолютная свобода. Планета Уран говорит, что Бог творит Вселенную легко, случайно и ненарочно, — такова же спонтанная природа гениальности человека. Но все же нечто над этим стоит, а именно изначальная архетипическая полнота Кетера; значит, и за спонтанностью Шута стоит разум —согласно Каббале, это непосредственно близкий к первоисточнику “разум огня”. Поскольку здесь происходит первое и потому самое сильное отклонение от изначального равновесия, то одним из символов этого цинарота является коромысло. Но чаще всего Шут просто держит узелок на палке, балансируя с ним на краю пропасти. В узкопрактической проекции на человеческую жизнь эта карта трактуется как предостережение против опасностей всего неожиданного и принципиально нового. Но за этим стоит более широкий смысл высшего творчества, творения на пустом месте, из всей полноты своего существа. Пусть творение есть нарушение изначального порядка бытия (потому перед Шутом пропасть), но все же оно диктуется высшими нравственными законами”. Ты что-нибудь понял, дорогой читатель? Мы —нет. Искренне твои, Третьи Лица. P. S. Но какой кайф, а?”
Anonymous

Haruki Murakami
“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That's the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine.

And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others.

And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.”
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

André Aciman
“Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between. But there's only one, and before you know it, your heart is worn out, and, as for your body, there comes a point when no one looks at it, much less wants to come near it. Right now there's sorrow. I don't envy the pain. But I envy you the pain. (p. 225)”
André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

André Aciman
“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything—what a waste!”
André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

Haruki Murakami
“Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library.”
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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