hana77
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“Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.”
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer
As quoted in Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1979) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 239
Aldous Huxley book Island
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"It’s dark because you are trying too hard.
Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly.
Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.
Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.
I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig.
Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me.
When it comes to dying even. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic.
No rhetoric, no tremolos,
no self conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Little Nell.
And of course, no theology, no metaphysics.
Just the fact of dying and the fact of the clear light.
So throw away your baggage and go forward.
There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet,
trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair.
That’s why you must walk so lightly.
Lightly my darling,
on tiptoes and no luggage,
not even a sponge bag,
completely unencumbered."
Source: Island
„A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.“
Jean De La Fontaine (1621–1695) francouzský básník, spisovatel a autor bajek
„Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.“
Marie Curie-Skłodowská (1867–1934) polsko-francouzská vědkyně
movie The Worst Person in the World
“You cannot live when you are untouchable. Life is vulnerability.”
Édouard Boubat (1923–1999) French photographer
Source: Autorovy deníkové zápisky
„By the time we learn to live, it is already too late.“
movie 1001 Grams
„Na světě nejsou věci, kterých bychom se měli bát. Jen je musíme pochopit.“
Marie Curie-Skłodowská (1867–1934) polsko-francouzská vědkyně
“A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
„Láska k našemu bližnímu v celé jeho plnosti jednoduše znamená být schopen říci: Co prožíváš?“
Simone Weil (1909–1943) francouzská filozofka, křesťanská mystička a sociální aktivistka
“Any Idiot Can Face a Crisis; It’s This Day-To-Day Living That Wears You Out.”
Unknown author
Často chybně připisováno Antonu Pavloviči Čechovovi
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/06/14/face-crisis/
“Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid., p. 163
The Book of Disquiet
Original: A experiência directa é o subterfúgio, ou o esconderijo, daqueles que são desprovidos de imaginação.
“The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.”
William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer
Source: My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804–1869) French literary critic
Le désespoir lui-même, pour peu qu'il se prolonge, devient une sorte d'asile dans lequel on peut s'asseoir et reposer.
"Vie de Joseph Delorme" (1829), cited from Poésies completes de Sainte-Beuve (Paris: Charpentier, 1840) p. 16; Mardy Grothe Oxymoronica (London: HarperCollins, 2004) p. 201.