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Очень интересное, захватывающее и живое описание повседневной жизни в Римской империи в период ее максимального могущества в правление императора Траяна. Люди, их проблемы и заботы, занятия, увлечения, болезни, развлечения, всё, что не видно туристу ...more "
my crash was one of the best things that ever happened to me because it gave me the humility I needed to balance my aggressiveness.
“Никому не следует проживать жизнь, ни разу не испытав здорового, даже скучного уединения в глуши, когда обнаруживаешь, что зависишь исключительно от себя самого, а следовательно, познаешь собственную истинную и скрытую силу. – Научаешься, к примеру, есть, когда голоден, и спать, когда сонен.”
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“Whenever I read statistical reports, I try to imagine my unfortunate contemporary, the Average Person, who, according to these reports, has 0.66 children, 0.032 cars, and 0.046 TVs.”
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“Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.”
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“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― Conversations with William Styron
― Conversations with William Styron
“This might suggest that the so-called imaginary time is really the real time, and that what we call real time is just a figment of our imaginations. In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down. But in imaginary time, there are no singularities or boundaries. So maybe what we call imaginary time is really more basic, and what we call real is just an idea that we invent to help us describe what we think the universe is like.”
― A Brief History of Time
― A Brief History of Time
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