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“I was with book, as a woman is with child.”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

“O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life,
but exhaust the limits of the possible.”
― Pindar

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms...”
― Anna Akhmatova

“Я счастлив жестокой обидою,
И в жизни поxожей на сон,
Я каждому тайно завидую
И в каждого тайно влюблен.”
― Osip Mandelstam

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“I exist as I am, that is enough.”
― Walt Whitman

“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“I'm like you,' he said. 'I remember everything.'

I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when you’re just ready to shut the door of the taxi and have already said goodbye to everyone else and there’s not a thing left to say in this life, then, just this once, turn to me, even in jest, or as an afterthought, which would have meant everything to me when we were together, and, as you did back then, look me in the face, hold my gaze, and call me by your name”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Застенчевый герой

О, мой застенчивый герой,
ты ловко избежал позора.
Как долго я играла роль,
не опираясь на партнера!

К проклятой помощи твоей
я не прибегнула ни разу.
Среди кулис, среди теней
ты спасся, незаметный глазу.

Но в этом сраме и бреду
я шла пред публикой жестокой -
все на беду, все на виду,
все в этой роли одинокой.

О, как ты гоготал, партер!
Ты не прощал мне очевидность
бесстыжую моих потерь,
моей улыбки безобидность.

И жадно шли твои стада
напиться из моей печали.
Одна, одна - среди стыда
стою с упавшими плечами.

Но опрометчивой толпе
герой действительный не виден.
Герой, как боязно тебе!
Не бойся, я тебя не выдам.

Вся наша роль - моя лишь роль.
Я проиграла в ней жестоко.
Вся наша боль - моя лишь боль.
Но сколько боли. Сколько. Сколько.”
― Bella Akhmadulina

“кто знает - вечность или миг
мне предстоит бродить по свету.
за этот миг иль вечность эту
равно благодарю я мир.”
― Bella Akhmadulina

“sufficient unto the moment is the appearance of reality.”
― D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!”
― Homer

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“My turn shall also come:
I sense the spreading of a wing.”
― Osip Mandelstam, The Selected Poems