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Doris May Lessing z domu Tayler – angielska pisarka, laureatka Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury . Wikipedia  

✵ 22. Październik 1919 – 17. Listopad 2013   •   Natępne imiona Doris May Lessing, Дорис Лессинг
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“Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.”

Doris Lessing książka The Golden Notebook

Źródło: The Golden Notebook

“In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.”

Doris Lessing książka Martha Quest

Martha Quest (1952), Part III, ch. 2

“We are all creatures of the stars.”

Źródło: Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta

“Laughter is by definition healthy.”

The Summer Before the Dark (1973)

“People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.”

Doris Lessing książka The Golden Notebook

Źródło: The Golden Notebook

“All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh.”

Doris Lessing książka The Golden Notebook

Anna Wulf, in "The Golden Notebook"
The Golden Notebook (1962)
Kontekst: I knew, and it was an illumination — one of those things one has always known, but never understood before — that all sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under flesh.
Kontekst: I knew, and it was an illumination — one of those things one has always known, but never understood before — that all sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under flesh. If this goes, then the conviction of life goes too. But I could feel none of this. … I knew I was moving into a new dimension, further from sanity than I had ever been. <!-- p. 585

“Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.”

Doris Lessing książka The Golden Notebook

Źródło: The Golden Notebook

“Better Counsel comes overnight.”

Besserer Rat kommt über Nacht.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Emilia Galotti (1772), Act IV, scene III http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/7mlgl10.txt
Misattributed

“What matters most is that we learn from living.”

As quoted in Permission to Play : Taking Time to Renew Your Smile (2003) by Jill Murphy Long, p. 147

“It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in their own propaganda.”

Doris Lessing książka The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire

The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire (1983), p. 94, Flamingo edition

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