The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not
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| Camus, Paris, 1957 |
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Πέμπτη 7 Νοεμβρίου 2019
Σάββατο 19 Μαρτίου 2016
9 + 1 Quotes of Rhillip Roth
1. When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it will be a great place.
2. He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.
3. Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.
4. Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them – at least I didn’t; to phrase them was to invent them and own them.
5. The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
6. A writer needs his poisons.
7. In an enormous commercial society that demands complete freedom of expression, the culture is a maw.
8. Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up.
9. The dirty little secret is no longer sex; the dirty little secret is hatred and rage.
(+1.) To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.
2. He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.
3. Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.
4. Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them – at least I didn’t; to phrase them was to invent them and own them.
5. The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
6. A writer needs his poisons.
7. In an enormous commercial society that demands complete freedom of expression, the culture is a maw.
8. Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up.
9. The dirty little secret is no longer sex; the dirty little secret is hatred and rage.
(+1.) To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.
Τρίτη 1 Δεκεμβρίου 2015
9 + 1 Quotes of Woody Allen
1. To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition
2. If God exists, I hope has a good excuse
2. If God exists, I hope has a good excuse
3. I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying
4. I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland
5. My brain: it's my second favorite organ
6. My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers
7. Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there
8. I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia
9. Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon
(+ 1) Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right
Τρίτη 8 Σεπτεμβρίου 2015
9 + 1 Quotes of Leo Tolstoy
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| Image: Count Semyon Semyonovich Abamelek-Lazarev - The author Leo Tolstoy with his family in Yasnaya Polyana |
1. I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders
2. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself
3. By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings
4. All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way
5. The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him
6. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love
7. It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty
8. Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them
9. Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them
(+ 1) But the peasants -- how do the peasants die?
2. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself
3. By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings
4. All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way
5. The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him
6. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love
7. It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty
8. Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them
9. Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them
(+ 1) But the peasants -- how do the peasants die?
Πέμπτη 25 Ιουνίου 2015
9 + 1 Quotes of George Orwell
1. Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea
2. It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
3. The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside
4. Beauty is meaningless until it is shared
5. Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be
6. There is something wrong with a regime that requires a pyramid of corpses every few years
7. The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians
8. As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents
9. We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary
2. It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
3. The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside
4. Beauty is meaningless until it is shared
5. Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be
6. There is something wrong with a regime that requires a pyramid of corpses every few years
7. The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians
8. As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents
9. We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary
(+ 1). Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a
long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a
thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither
resist nor understand
Κυριακή 21 Ιουνίου 2015
9 + 1 Quotes of Jean Paul Sartre
1. In a word, man must create his
own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there,
struggling there, that he gradually defines himself
2. Words are loaded pistols
3. Everything has been figured
out, except how to live
4. We are our choices
5. Existence is an imperfection
6. Fascism is not defined by the
number of its victims, but by the way it kills them
7. This is the contradiction of
racism, colonialism, and all forms of tyranny: in order to treat a man like a
dog, one must first recognize him as a man
8. When the rich make war, it's
the poor that die
9. I hate victims who respect
their executioners
(+ 1) So that is what hell is. I
would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the
torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: Hell is other people
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