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""Dažkārt tu ilgas stundas pavadi koka priekšā, to vērojot, aprakstot, ķidājot [..] Tev šķiet, ka tu varētu pavadīt visu dzīvi koka priekšā, tā arī to neizsmeļot un nesaprotot, jo nekas jau nav jāsaprot, ir tikai jāskatās. [..] Tu vari būt suņu Dievs, kaķu Dievs, nabago Dievs [..], bet kokam tu nekad nebūsi saimnieks. Tu vienmēr varēsi gribēt tikai pats kļūt par koku."" — Apr 28, 2026 10:43AM
""Dažkārt tu ilgas stundas pavadi koka priekšā, to vērojot, aprakstot, ķidājot [..] Tev šķiet, ka tu varētu pavadīt visu dzīvi koka priekšā, tā arī to neizsmeļot un nesaprotot, jo nekas jau nav jāsaprot, ir tikai jāskatās. [..] Tu vari būt suņu Dievs, kaķu Dievs, nabago Dievs [..], bet kokam tu nekad nebūsi saimnieks. Tu vienmēr varēsi gribēt tikai pats kļūt par koku."" — Apr 28, 2026 10:43AM
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""The things of this world interweave dances made to different rhythms. If the world is upheld by the dancing Shiva, there must be ten thousand such dancing Shivas, like the dancing figures painted by Matisse."" — Apr 17, 2021 07:39AM
""The things of this world interweave dances made to different rhythms. If the world is upheld by the dancing Shiva, there must be ten thousand such dancing Shivas, like the dancing figures painted by Matisse."" — Apr 17, 2021 07:39AM
“Depression is melancholy minus its charms.”
― Illness as Metaphor
― Illness as Metaphor
“You're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, who knows,' he replied.
'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently.
'I protest!' Behemoth exclaimed hotly. 'Dostoevsky is immortal!”
― The Master and Margarita
'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently.
'I protest!' Behemoth exclaimed hotly. 'Dostoevsky is immortal!”
― The Master and Margarita
“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
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“I fell,” he repeated for the hundredth time.
“But you didn’t fall very far,” Mary Sarojini now said.
“No, I didn’t fall very far,” he agreed.
“So what’s all the fuss about?” the child inquired.”
― Island
“But you didn’t fall very far,” Mary Sarojini now said.
“No, I didn’t fall very far,” he agreed.
“So what’s all the fuss about?” the child inquired.”
― Island
“Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?”
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