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“People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accumulation of every second we’ve lived; they’re the narrative that we assembled out of selected moments. Which is why, even when we’ve experienced the same events as other individuals, we never constructed identical narratives: the criteria used for selecting moments were different for each of us, and a reflection of our personalities. Each of us noticed the details that caught our attention and remembered what was important to us, and the narratives we built shaped our personalities in turn. But, I wondered, if everyone remembered everything, would our differences get shaved away? What would happen to our sense of self? It seemed to me that a perfect memory couldn’t be a narrative any more than unedited security-cam footage could be a feature film. ·”
― The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling
― The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling
“Nikad poslije u životu dječaci
nisu bili tako vitki i lijepi. To bi netko trebao reći srednjoškolkama, zašto im to tajiti; ljubite
ih sad, ljubite ih što više, što nježnije, još malo, i imat ćete neke druge oči, a ne te zanesene.
Zanosite se do besvijesti, pod svaku cijenu, to je sve što vrijedi i nikad poslije, ništa što
dolazi poslije, neće to moći zamijeniti. To je ono za čim tragamo, ponoviti taj osjećaj, izazvati
ga, to je ono što nam do kraja nedostaje. Strahovita zaljubljenost u život, platonska i
strastvena, životu usprkos.”
― Nasmijati psa
nisu bili tako vitki i lijepi. To bi netko trebao reći srednjoškolkama, zašto im to tajiti; ljubite
ih sad, ljubite ih što više, što nježnije, još malo, i imat ćete neke druge oči, a ne te zanesene.
Zanosite se do besvijesti, pod svaku cijenu, to je sve što vrijedi i nikad poslije, ništa što
dolazi poslije, neće to moći zamijeniti. To je ono za čim tragamo, ponoviti taj osjećaj, izazvati
ga, to je ono što nam do kraja nedostaje. Strahovita zaljubljenost u život, platonska i
strastvena, životu usprkos.”
― Nasmijati psa
“The universe began as an enormous breath being held. Who knows why, but whatever the reason, I'm glad it did, because I owe my existence to that fact. All my desires and ruminations are no more and no less than eddy currents generated by the gradual exhalation of our universe. And until this great exhalation is finished, my thoughts live on.”
― Exhalation
― Exhalation
“I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it.”
― Simple Passion
― Simple Passion
“I must tell you now that I did not drop my shield and run from the battle out of mere cowardice - though that was no doubt part of it. But when I suddenly saw one of Octavius Caesar’s soldiers (or maybe Antonius’s, I do not know) advancing toward me with naked steel flashing in his hands and in his eyes, it was as if time suddenly stood still; and I remembered you and all the hopes you had of my future. I remembered that you had been born a slave, and had managed to buy your freedom; that your labor and your life were early turned to your son, so that he might leave in an ease and comfort and security that you never had. And I saw that son uselessly slaughtered on an earth he had no love for, for a cause he did not understand - and I had a sense of what your years might have been with the knowledge of your son’s discarded life - and I ran. I ran over bodies of fallen soldiers, and saw their empty eyes staring at the sky which they would never see again; and it did not matter to me whether they were friend or foe. I ran.”
― Augustus
― Augustus
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