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- In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed – they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce…? The cuckoo clock. (Orson Welles) (08. 25. 2009)
- If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us. (Hermann Hesse) (07. 27. 2009)
- That is to say, happiness at home is the root of all evils. (DAZAI Osamu) (07. 13. 2009)
- Cheerfulness might be a sign of ruin; while in gloom, you have some hope, your family name or yourself. (DAZAI Osamu) (06. 29. 2009)
- A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. (Virginia Woolf) (06. 22. 2009)
- Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) (06. 15. 2009)
- Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. (Vernon Law) (06. 08. 2009)
- If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong. (Arthur C. Clarke) (03. 10. 2009)
- Every vice you destroy has a corresponding virtue, which perishes along with it. (Anatole France) (11. 25. 2008)
- And where we are met with cynicism and doubt and those who tell us that we can’t, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can. (Barack Obama) (11. 11. 2008)
- Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea. (Alain) (11. 03. 2008)
- Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. (Punch) (07. 21. 2008)
- At fifty, everyone has the face he deserves. (George Orwell) (07. 07. 2008)
- The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. (Elie Wiesel) (07. 02. 2008)
- I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can’t stop eating peanuts. (Orson Wells) (06. 24. 2008)
- You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way. (Marvin Minsky) (06. 09. 2008)
- Loving a person is being willing to grow old with that person. (Albert Camus) (06. 03. 2008)
- If you love unrequitedly — i.e., if your love as love does not call forth love in return, if, through the vital expression of yourself as a loving person, you fail to become a loved person — then your love is impotent, it is a misfortune. (Karl Marx) (05. 19. 2008)
- Unexplained beauty arouses an irritation in me. (William Empson) (05. 13. 2008)
- Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose, is a rose. (Gertrude Stein) (05. 06. 2008)
- When I looked at those photographs, something broke. Some limit had been reached, and not only that of horror; I felt irrevocably grieved, wounded, but a part of my feelings started to tighten; something went dead; something is still crying. (Susan Sontag) (04. 29. 2008)
- Here’s looking at you, kid. (Humphrey Bogart) (04. 22. 2008)
- It doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice. (Deng Xiaoping) (04. 15. 2008)
- April is the cruellest month (T. S. Eliot) (04. 08. 2008)
- Life is the enemy of love. (Ekuni, Kaori) (03. 31. 2008)
- Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. (J. M. Keynes) (03. 24. 2008)
- It(=tradition) involves, in the first place, the historical sense, which we may call nearly indispensable to anyone who would continue to be a poet beyond his twenty-fifth year. (T. S. Eliot) (03. 18. 2008)
- To say good bye is to die a little. (Raymond Chandler) (03. 10. 2008)
- A genius is the one who goes only one step further than we do. Contemporaries are always ignorant that this one step is a thousand leagues long. Later generations are also blind to the fact that this is just one step. (Akutagawa, Ryunosuke) (03. 03. 2008)
- All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. (Leo Tolstoy) (02. 25. 2008)
- This is the sort of English up with which I will not put. (Winston Churchill) (02. 18. 2008)
- He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. (G. B. Shaw) (02. 11. 2008)
- No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. (ELEANOR ROOSEVELT) (02. 04. 2008)
- Having tried to get over pressure so many times, I found there’s no way of overcoming it after all. (ICHIRO SUZUKI) (01. 28. 2008)
- In accomplishing anything definite a man renounces everything else. (SANTAYANA) (01. 20. 2008)
- Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. (SPINOZA) (01. 18. 2008)