“If you think about it long enough, you see that the paradox is actually pointing you to the idea that we have no freedom whatsoever. If we're forced to use free will, what meaning does freedom have?”
― quote from The November Criminals
“That's how life is: it provides these accidental answers. Or it seems to. You have to judge by results.”
― quote from The November Criminals
“Success is supposed to lead you on to more success. Our whole society is constructed around this principle.”
― quote from The November Criminals
“His story also demonstrates an obscure truth. Having a plan, any plan, means you know on some level you're going to fail, you're in the wrong. This contradicts everything I've been taught, all the larger principles of modern life, which are all about planning and calculation. But if you're going to success, how could you need to think it out beforehand? If you had the necessary confidence--in every case perfect, unbreakable confidence--the idea of a plan would make you laugh.”
― quote from The November Criminals
“En la felicidad hay un sabor, como un trasfondo o algo así, de que la vida está irremediablemente mal.”
― quote from The November Criminals
“Reliable mediocrity, I’ve decided, is the most important thing for the continuation of human existence.”
― quote from The November Criminals
“And you rage and scream and reach through the Force to crush the shadow who has destroyed you, but you are so far less now than what you were, you are more than half machine, you are like a painter gone blind, a composer gone deaf, you can remember where the power was but the power you can touch is only a memory, and so with all your world-destroying fury it is only droids around you that implode, and equipment, and the table on which you were strapped shatters, and in the end, you cannot touch the shadow. In the end you don't even want to. In the end, you do not even want to. In the end, the shadow is all you have left. Because the shadow understands you, the shadow forgives you, the shadow gathers you unto itself—And within your furnace heart, you burn in your own flame.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, quote from Revenge of the Sith
“Perder no es tan malo como dejar de luchar”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, quote from This Heart of Mine
“The worst thing about this illness isn’t the things it makes me believe, or what it makes me do. It’s not the control that it has over me, or even the control it’s allowed other people to take.
Worse than all of that is how I have become selfish.”
― Nathan Filer, quote from The Shock of the Fall
“الأم: - علام تعتمد عجوز مثلي في حزنها إذا انتزعتم الله منها؟ا
بول: -انك لم تفهمينا يا اماه.
ريبين: -سامحيني ايتها الأم، فلقد نسيت انك طعنت في السن لدرجة لا نستطيع معها اجتثاث ثآليلك.
بول: -لم اكن اتحدث عن الله الطيب الرحيم الذي تؤمنون به، بل عن الله الذي يهددنا به الكهنة، كما لو كانوا يهددونا بعصا؛ عن إله يراد باسمه ان يخضع العالم كله للإراده القاسية، إراده البعض
ريبين: -لقد زيفوا لنا حتى الله و سخروا ضدنا كل ما في ايديهم، أتذكرين ايتها الأم؟ لقد خلق الانسان على شاكلته، على صورته، اذا فهو يشبه الانسان اذا شابهه الانسان، و لكننا لا نشبه الله، بل نشبه الوحوش الضارية. انهم يظهرونه لنا في الكنيسة على شكل فزاعة. لذا ينبغي ان نطور الله ، ايتها الأم، ينبغي ان نطهره، فلقد البسوه ثوبا من الكذب و النميمة و شوهوا وجهه ليقتلوا روحنا”
― Maxim Gorky, quote from Mother
“Speak to me."
"I hate you."
"Okay." Mad Rogan let go of me. "You're fine.”
― Ilona Andrews, quote from Burn for Me
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