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“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves.
I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.”
― The English Patient
I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.”
― The English Patient
“It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
― The Wise Man's Fear
“There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lovers enter the habits of the other. Things are smashed, revealed in a new light. This is done with nervous or tender sentences, although the heart is an organ of fire.”
― The English Patient
― The English Patient
“God is indeed a jealous God —
He cannot bear to see
That we had rather not with Him
But with each other play.”
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He cannot bear to see
That we had rather not with Him
But with each other play.”
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“Виж какво пише един северен глупак: “Да се смееш често и много – казва той, - да спечелиш уважението на умните хора и любовта на децата; да получиш добрата оценка на честните критици и да изтърпиш предателството на лъжливите приятели; да можеш да цениш красотата, да намериш най-доброто у другите, да оставиш света малко по-добър, било то със здраво дете, с малка градина или с поне едно подобрено условие в живота на хората; да знаеш, че поне един човек е дишал по-лесно благодарение на твоя живот. Това значи успех!” – В следващия момент с изненадваща енергичност докторът рязко запрати книгата в морето и извика след нея: - Успех, глупако, значи да бъдеш богат и в идеално физическо здраве. Богат и здрав! Само това и нищо друго. Непоносими са ми вече тези дрънкала – обърна се д-р Монардес към мен. – Дрънкотят само глупости да лъжат себе си и останалите, че са нещо друго освен проклети неудачници, и наричат това философия. – После той се обърна отново към морето и каза: - Тези съчинения заслужават да бъдат изядени от рибите. Току-виж после някоя риба проговорила мъдро.”
― Thrown into Nature
― Thrown into Nature
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