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Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory. - Betty Smith
Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds. - Rita Mae Brown

Alegeri parlamentare 2012

În ciuda vremii, am ajuns azi la vot. Mi s-au părut foarte interesante buletinele de vot: la Senat toate opțiunile erau pe o pagină, urmată de vreo 4 foi goale; oarecum de înțeles, că așa ne place să irosim banii degeaba. La Deputați în schimb paginile sunt pline, dar în afară de prima, toate erau asociații de minorități! Nu prea văd ce relevanță au asemenea opțiuni, n-ar trebui să existe candidați doar în colegiile în care minoritatea respectivă depășește un anumit procent din populație? De asta există până la urmă pragul electoral la partide… se așteaptă cineva să câștige un candidat de la o minoritate acolo unde nu există și o comunitate locală?
My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky. - Alan Moore
Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. - Voltaire
Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe. - Neil Gaiman
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. - Kurt Vonnegut
The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws. - Michael Cunningham
Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see. - Arthur Schopenhauer
People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within. Ursula K. Le Guin
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. - Oscar Wilde
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. - Frank Herbert
What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains. - Tennessee Williams
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. - François de La Rochefoucauld
A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace. Frank McCourt
Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black. Martin Amis

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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited. Jorge Luis Borges
The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all. - Ted Hughes
I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become. - Jean-Paul Sartre
If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger. - Emily Brontë
Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day. - Glen Cook
A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities. - Herman Melville
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Mereu ni se pare că suntem iubiți pentru că suntem buni și nu realizam că suntem iubiți pentru că sunt buni cei care ne iubesc. (Lev Tolstoi)
Iubirea cheamă iubire. Nu este atât de important ca să fii iubit, cat să iubești tu cu toată puterea și cu toată ființa. (Constantin Brâncuși)
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self. - Franz Kafka
Numai sufletele vulgare își batjocoresc dragostele de odinioară. Oamenii de bun simț sădesc flori pe morminte. (Octavian Goga)
E o mare durere să iubesti, și o mare nenorocire să scapi de această durere. (I.L. Caragiale)
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. André Gide
We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love. Robert Fulghum
În aritmetica iubirii, unu plus unu fac totul, pe când doi minus unu este egal cu zero. ( Mignon McLaughlin )
Keep smiling, it makes people wonder what you're up to.
I never change, I simply become more myself. Joyce Carol Oates
Cel mai trist lucru în dragoste este faptul că de cele mai multe ori sufletul ți-l răpește exact acela care nu are nevoie de el. ( I.L. Caragiale )
Este foarte periculos sa fii sincer in conditiile in care nu esti si prost.
People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of. Gregory Maguire
O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales. Leo Rosten
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. Thomas Mann
To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves. Federico García Lorca
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing. Benjamin Franklin .
Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. William Shakespeare
The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone. Nick Hornby
Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world. John Burroughs
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. Elie Wiesel
April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four. - Mark Twain
It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal. E.M. Forster
A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life. - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. - Ralph Ellison
„N-ar trebui să scriem cărți decât pentru a spune în ele lucruri pe care n-am îndrăzni să le mărturisim nimănui.” Emil Cioran