Rein > Rein's Quotes

“Enda teha kõik. Ja mitte miski.
Maailm mängib keelte pilliga.
Olla elus - siin on õudset riski;
verd ja higi, puid ja lilli ka.”
― Juhan Viiding

“Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.”
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

“Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.”
― Karl Popper

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
― Albert Camus

“A book is a suicide postponed.”
― Cioran

“Difference is not the opposite of harmony but its condition.”
― Regis Debray, Transmitting Culture

“Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.”
― David Foster Wallace

“The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person...”
― Czeslaw Milosz

“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
― William Faulkner, Essays, Speeches & Public Letters

“Literature is news that stays news.”
― Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading

“For me, self-discipline has never corresponded to a voluntary adhesion to norms invented by others. It has always been the first step towards breaking the chains.”
― Eugenio Barba, On Directing

“The concept of a writer writing a vivid and accurate scene in a language transparent and devoid of decoration so that we see through to the object without writerly distraction suffers the same contradiction as the concept of a painter painting a vivid and accurate scene with pigments transparent and devoid of color, including white and black—so that the paint will not get between us and the picture.”
― Samuel R. Delany, Jewel Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction

“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
― W.C. Fields

“Über die Ferne der finsteren Fluren
hebt mich mein Stern in dein schwärmendes Blut.
Nicht mehr am Weh, das wir beide erfuhren,
rätselt, der leicht in der Dämmerung ruht.

Wie soll er, Süße, dich betten und wiegen,
daß seine Seele das Schlummerlied krönt?
Nirgends, wo Traum ist und Liebende liegen,
hat je ein Schweigen so seltsam getönt.

Nun, wenn nur Wimpern die Stunden begrenzen,
tut sich das Leben der Dunkelheit kund.
Schließe, Geliebte, die Augen, die glänzen.
Nichts mehr sei Welt als dein schimmernder Mund.”
― Paul Celan, Die Gedichte.

“At pier four there is a 34-foot yawl-rigged yacht with two of the three hundred and twenty-four Esthonians who are sailing around in different parts of the world, in boats between 28 and 36 feet long and sending back articles to the Esthonian newspapers. These articles are very popular in Esthonia and bring their authors between a dollar and a dollar and thirty cents a column. They take the place occupied by the baseball or football news in American newspapers and are run under the heading of Sagas of Our Intrepid Voyagers. No well-run yacht basin in Southern waters is complete without at least two sunburned, salt bleached-headed Esthonians who are waiting for a check from their last article. When it comes they will sail to another yacht basin and write another saga. They are very happy too. Almost as happy as the people on the Alzira III. It’s great to be an Intrepid Voyager.”
― Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon