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“Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me.”
― Island Beneath the Sea
― Island Beneath the Sea
“Mislim, dakle postojim je rečenica intelektualca koji potcjenjuje zubobolju.
Osjećam, dakle postojim mnogo je šire primjenjiva istina i tiče se svega živog.
Moje ja u osnovi se ne razlikuje od vašeg onim što misli. Ljudi je mnogo, ideja je malo: svi mislimo približno jednako i ideje jedni drugima predajemo, posuđujemo, krademo.
Kad mi pak netko stane na nogu, bol osjećam samo ja. Osnova ja nije mišljenje, nego patnja koja je najosnovniji od svih osjećaja. U patnji ni mačka ne može sumnjati u svje nezamjenjivo ja. U snažnoj patnji svijet nestaje i svatko od nas je sam sa sobom.
Patnja je sveučilište egocentrika.”
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Osjećam, dakle postojim mnogo je šire primjenjiva istina i tiče se svega živog.
Moje ja u osnovi se ne razlikuje od vašeg onim što misli. Ljudi je mnogo, ideja je malo: svi mislimo približno jednako i ideje jedni drugima predajemo, posuđujemo, krademo.
Kad mi pak netko stane na nogu, bol osjećam samo ja. Osnova ja nije mišljenje, nego patnja koja je najosnovniji od svih osjećaja. U patnji ni mačka ne može sumnjati u svje nezamjenjivo ja. U snažnoj patnji svijet nestaje i svatko od nas je sam sa sobom.
Patnja je sveučilište egocentrika.”
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“The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
“Why did I not know that (child) birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?...Until you are the woman on the bricks, you have no idea how death stands in the corner, ready to play his part. Until you are the woman on the bricks, you do not know the power that rises from other women.”
― The Red Tent
― The Red Tent
“I love you." For a start, we'd better put these words on a high shelf; in a square box behind glass which we have to break with our elbow; in a bank. We shouldn't leave them lying around the house like a tube of vitamin C. If the words come too easily to hand, we'll use them without thought; we won't be able to resist. Oh, we say we won't, but we will. We'll get drunk, or lonely, or - likeliest of all - plain damn hopeful, and there are the words gone, used up, grubbied. We think we might be in love and we're trying out the words to see if they're appropriate? How can we know what we think till we hear what we say? Come off it; that won't wash. These are grand words; we must make sure we deserve them. Listen to them again: "I love you.”
― A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
― A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
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