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“Nezanedbávajte nič, čo by vám mohlo priniesť trochu rovnováhy. Šťastie na vás tak či tak nečaká; to je už veľmi dlho isté. Ale ak sa vám podarí zachytiť niektorú z napodobenín šťastia, chyťte ju. Neváhajte.
Tak či onak to dlho nepotrvá.”
― Rester vivant: et autres textes
Tak či onak to dlho nepotrvá.”
― Rester vivant: et autres textes
“We live, understandably enough, with the sense of urgency; our clock, like Baudelaire’s, has had the hands removed and bears the legend, “It is later than you think.” But with us it is always a little too late for mind, yet never too late for honest stupidity; always a little too late for understanding, never too late for righteous, bewildered wrath; always too late for thought, never too late for naïve moralizing. We seem to like to condemn our finest but not our worst qualities by pitting them against the exigency of time.”
― The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society
― The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society
“There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.”
― Half Empty
― Half Empty
“We have to remember not to tell them, each of them, that they are our new leader. It would only frighten them off, W. says. No one should ever know he or she is our leader, we agree. Only we should know. And we should follow them in secret.”
― Spurious
― Spurious
“you happen to be possessed of a certain verbal acuity coupled with a relentless hair trigger humor and surface cheer spackling over a chronic melancholia and loneliness-- a grotesquely caricatured version of your deepest self which you trot out at the slightest provocation to endearing and glib comic effect, thus rendering you the kind of fellow who is beloved by all yet loved by none, all of it to distract, however fleetingly, from the cold and dead-faced truth that with each passing year you face the unavoidable certainty of a solitary future in which you will perish one day while vainly attempting the Heimlich maneuver on yourself over the back of the kitchen chair”
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