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“A tökéletességre törekvés kimerít, és nem változtat semmin. A tökéletesség eszmény. Márpedig minden eszmény elérhetetlen, sohasem valósulhat meg, mert akkor nem lenne többé eszmény. Az eszmény és a valóság között áthidalhatatlan, örök szakadék tátong.
(A gróf)”
― Ismeretlen barátom
(A gróf)”
― Ismeretlen barátom
“Thus, gentlemen, though an inlander, Steelkilt was wild-ocean born, and wild-ocean nurtured; as much of an audacious mariner as any.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“It's clear that the largest things are contained in the smallest. There can be no doubt about it. At this very moment, as I write, there's a planetary configuration on the table, the entire Cosmos if you like: a thermometer, a coin, an aluminum spoon and a porcelain cup. A key, a cell phone, a piece of paper and a pen. And one of my gray hairs, whose atoms preserve the memory of the origins of life, of the cosmic Catastrophe that gave the world its beginning.”
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
“One has to tell people what to think. There is no alternative. Otherwise, someone else will do it.”
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“Art has always been my salvation. And my gods are Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Mozart. I believe in them with all my heart. And when Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can’t explain — I don’t need to. I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart. Or if I walk in the woods and I see an animal, the purpose of my life was to see that animal. I can recollect it, I can notice it. I’m here to take note of. And that is beyond my ego, beyond anything that belongs to me, an observer, an observer.”
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