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  • #1
    Milan Kundera
    “As retretes das casas de banho modernas erguem-se do chão como uma flor branca de nenúfar. Os arquitectos fazem os impossíveis para que o corpo esqueça a sua miséria e para que o homem não saiba o que acontece às dejecções das suas vísceras quando a água do autoclismo, a gorgolejar, as expulsa da vista. Embora os seus tentáculos se prolonguem até nossas casas, os canos de esgoto estão cuidadosamente disfarçados e por isso não sabemos absolutamente nada a respeito das invisíveis Venezas de merda sobre as quais se encontram construídas as nossas casas de banho, os nossos quartos, os nossos salões de baile e os nossos parlamentos.
    As casas de banho daquele velho prédio de um bairro operário dos subúrbios de Praga eram menos hipócritas; do chão de ladrilho cinzentos, erguia-se, órfã e miserável, a retrete. não fazia lembrar uma flor de nenúfar, mas, pelo contrário, evocava o que, na realidade, era: o sítio onde o cano terminava e o seu diâmetro se alargava. Nem sequer tinha tampo de madeira e Tereza teve de sentar-se directamente na lioça esmaltada, sentiu um arrepio de frio.(…)”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    tags: life

  • #2
    Milan Kundera
    “Jean-Marc ergueu-se para ir buscar a garrafa de conhaque e dois copos. E, depois, de uma golada: - No fim da minha visita ao hospital, ele começou a contar recordações. Recordou-me aquilo que eu teria dito quando tinha dezasseis anos. Nesse momento compreendi o único sentido da amizade tal como hoje é praticada. A amizade é indispensável ao homem para o bom funcionamento da sua memória. Lembrar-se do passado, trazê-lo sempre consigo, é talvez a condição necessária para conservar, como se costuma dizer, a integridade do eu. Pare o eu não encolha, para que mantenha o seu volume, é preciso regar as recordações como as flores de uma vaso, e essa rega exige um contacto regular com testemunhas do passado, isto é, com amigos. Eles são o nosso espelho, a nossa memória; não se exige anda deles, apenas que de vez em quando puxem o lustro a esse espelho para que nos possamos mirar nele. Mas estou –me nas tintas para o que fazia no liceu! O que sempre desejei desde a primeira juventude, talvez desde a infância, foi algo completamente diferente: a amizade como um valor acima de todos os outros. Gostava de dizer: entre a verdade e o amigo, escolho sempre o amigo. Dizia-o por provocação, mas pensava-o a sério. Hoje sei que essa máxima era arcaica. Podia ser válida para Aquiles, o amigo de Pátroclo, para os mosqueteiros de Alexandre Dumas, até ao Sancho, que apesar dos desacordos era um verdadeiro amigo do seu amo. Mas já não o é para nós. Vou tão no meu pessimismo que hoje posso preferir a verdade à amizade.”
    Milan Kundera, Identity

  • #3
    George Orwell
    “Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me:
    There lie they, and here lie we
    Under the spreading chestnut tree.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #4
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    William W. Purkey

  • #5
    Louise Erdrich
    “We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.”
    Louise Erdrich, The Bingo Palace

  • #6
    José Saramago
    “Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.”
    José Saramago

  • #7
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
    I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
    My soul can reach”
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  • #8
    Maria V. Snyder
    “Everyone makes choices in life. Some bad, some good. It's called living, and if you want to bow out, then go right ahead. But don't do it halfway. Don't linger in whiner's limbo.”
    Maria V. Snyder, Poison Study

  • #9
    Agatha Christie
    “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
    Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

  • #10
    Maria V. Snyder
    “Yelena, you've driven me crazy. You've caused me considerable trouble and I've contemplated ending your life twice since I've known you." Valek's warm breath in my ear sent a shiver down my spine.

    "But you’ve slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart.”

    “That sounds more like a poison than a person,” was all I could say. His confession had both shocked and thrilled me.

    “Exactly,” Valek replied. “You have poisoned me.”
    Maria V. Snyder, Poison Study

  • #11
    Maria V. Snyder
    “He made a weak attempt to look innocent, but I knew better. 'Should I guess how many concealed weapons you have or should I strip search you?'

    'A strip search is the only way to be absolutely certain.' Valek's deep blue eyes danced with delight.”
    Maria V. Snyder, Magic Study

  • #12
    Ali Shaw
    “Writing is like going underwater - thank you for being there when I come back up.”
    Ali Shaw, The Girl With Glass Feet

  • #13
    Milan Kundera
    “Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”
    Milan Kundera

  • #14
    Milan Kundera
    “You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”
    Milan Kundera

  • #15
    Milan Kundera
    “Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #16
    Milan Kundera
    “Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #17
    Milan Kundera
    “Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.”
    Milan Kundera

  • #18
    Milan Kundera
    “Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #19
    Milan Kundera
    “In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #20
    Milan Kundera
    “When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #21
    Milan Kundera
    “She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything, your slave, be strong! But they were words she could not say.

    The only thing she said when he released her from his embrace was, "You don't know how happy I am to be with you." That was the most her reserved nature allowed her to express.”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #22
    Milan Kundera
    “Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.”
    Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

  • #23
    Milan Kundera
    “There is no perfection only life”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #24
    Milan Kundera
    “Love is by definition an unmerited gift; being loved without meriting it is the very proof of real love. If a woman tells me: I love you because you're intelligent, because you're decent, because you buy me gifts, because you don't chase women, because you do the dishes, then I'm disappointed; such love seems a rather self-interested business. How much finer it is to hear: I'm crazy about you even though you're neither intelligent nor decent, even though you're a liar, an egotist, a bastard.”
    Milan Kundera, Slowness

  • #25
    Milan Kundera
    “The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”
    Milan Kundera, Ignorance

  • #26
    Milan Kundera
    “Living is being happy: seeing, hearing, touching, drinking, eating, urinating, defecating, diving into the water and gazing at the sky, laughing and crying.”
    Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

  • #27
    Milan Kundera
    “she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #28
    Milan Kundera
    “A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #29
    Milan Kundera
    “To laugh is to live profoundly.”
    Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

  • #30
    Milan Kundera
    “Yes, it's crazy. Love is either crazy or it's nothing at all.”
    Milan Kundera, Life is Elsewhere



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