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“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Să ne cenzurăm şi-n noi înşine, nici cu noi înşine să nu-ndrăznim să fim noi?”
― Ileana Vulpescu, Arta conversației

“I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“Cu oamenii cu care trebuie să mă supraveghez când vorbesc, mai bine nu mai vorbesc. Ne salutăm şi ne dăm informaţii meteorologice.”
― Ileana Vulpescu, Arta conversației