“We take pictures because we can't accept that everything passes, we can't accept that the repetition of a moment is an impossibility. We wage a monotonous war against our own impending deaths, against time that turns children into that other, lesser species: adults. We take pictures because we know we will forget. We will forget the week, the day, the hour. We will forget when we were happiest. We take pictures out of pride, a desire to have the best of ourselve preserved. We fear that we will die and others will not know we lived.”
― Michelle Richmond, quote from The Year of Fog
“...You find a way, somehow to get through the most horrible things, things you think would kill you. You find a way and you move through the days, one by one, in shock, in despair, but you move. The days pass, one after the other, and you go along with them - occasionally stunned, and not entirely relieved, to find that you are still alive.”
― Michelle Richmond, quote from The Year of Fog
“Some people have a gift for making you feel okay, just by the fact of their presence.”
― Michelle Richmond, quote from The Year of Fog
“I have a hunch that our obsession with photography arises from an unspoken pessimism; it is our nature to believe the good things will not last. . . But photos provide a false sense of security> like our flawed memory, they are guaranteed to fade. . . . We take photographs in order to remember, but it is in the nature of a photograph to forget (pg 157)”
― Michelle Richmond, quote from The Year of Fog
“As the years progress and we experience more and more, the mini-narratives that make up our lives are distorted, corrupted, so that every one of us is left with a false history, a self-created fiction about the live we have led. pg 163”
― Michelle Richmond, quote from The Year of Fog
“Tragedy, in its full and life-altering form, happened to other people.”
― Michelle Richmond, quote from The Year of Fog
“I had never really thought of children as people, just as mysterious and needy creatures on their way to something greater.”
― Michelle Richmond, quote from The Year of Fog
“56 percent of learned information is forgotten within an hour of being encoded. By the time one day has passed, another 10 percent is gone. A month after the information is learned, 80 percent of it has vanished. How”
― Michelle Richmond, quote from The Year of Fog
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“Човек има приятели не само за да им предложи чаша вино, а да им попречи да се нагълтат с три-четири литра вода.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Count of Monte Cristo, V1
“You can say whatever you want about something, but that doesn’t change what it is.” He”
― Charles Martin, quote from Chasing Fireflies: A Novel of Discovery
“Great actions have shaped our society.’ Sindermann said. The greatest of these, physically, has been the Emperor's formal and complete unification of Terra, the outward sequel to which, this Great Crusade, we are now engaged upon. But the greatest, intellectually, has been our casting off of that heavy mantle called religion. Religion damned our species for thousands of years, from the lowest superstition to the highest conclaves of spiritual faith. It drove us to madness, to war,
to murder, it hung upon us like a disease, like a shackle ball. I'll tell you what religion was... No, you tell me. You, there?'
'Ignorance, sir.’
Thank you, Khanna. Ignorance. Since the earliest times, our species has striven to understand the workings of the cosmos, and where that understanding has failed, or fallen short, we have filled in the gaps, plastered over the discrepancies, with blind faith. Why does the sun go round the sky? I don't know, so I will attribute it to the efforts of a sun god with a golden chariot. Why do people die? I can't say, but I will choose to believe it is the murky business of a reaper who carries souls to some afterworld.”
― Dan Abnett, quote from Horus Rising
“ფული ღარიბ ქვეყანაში და ფული მდიდარ ქევყანაში – ორი სხვადასხვა ცნებაა. ფული მდიდარ ქვეყანაში არის ფასიანი ქაღალდი, რომლითაც თქვენ ბაზარში საქონელს ყიდულობთ; იქ თქვენ უბრალოდ მყიდველი ხართ, იქ მილიონერიც კი მყიდველია. მას შეუძლია შეიძინოს ბევრი ან ცოტა საქონელი, მაგრამ ის მაინც ერთ-ერთ რიგით მუშტრად რჩება და მეტი არაფერი. მაგრამ ღარიბ ქვეყანაში? ასეთ ქვეყანაში ფული არის მშვენიერი, თავბრუდამხვევი, მათრობელა, მარადიულ ყვავილებგამოსხმული ღობე, რომლითაც თქვენ ყველასგან იზოლირებული ხართ. ამ ცოცხალი ღობის იქით ვერ ხედავთ საშინელ სიღატაკეს, სიბინძურეს, ვერ გრძნობთ მის სიმყრალეს, არ გესმით ხალხის გულებიდან ამომავალი ხმები.
თუმცა, იმავდროულად თქვენ იცით, რომ ეს ყველაფერი არსებობს და გრძნობთ სიხარულსა და სიამაყეს: თქვენ ხომ ასე საიმედოდ ხართ დაცული. თქვენ გაქვთ ფული, მაშასადამე, თქვენ გაქვთ ფრთები. თქვენ ხართ სამოთხის ჩიტი, რომელიც აღტაცებას იწვევს. შეგიძლიათ, წარმოიდგინოთ, რომ ჰოლანდიაში ხალხი მდიდარი თანამემამულის დასათვალიერებლად შეიკრიბოს იმის გამო, რომ მას ახლოდან შეხედოს?! შვედეთში ან ავსტრალიაში? ჩვენთან კი ასე ხდება: თუ თავადი ან მილი”
― Ryszard Kapuściński, quote from The Emperor
“A aquellos que han cometido errores en su trabajo, salvo los elementos incorregibles, los comunistas no deben dejarlos de lado, sino al contrario, deben persuadirlos para que se transformen y emprendan un nuevo camino. «El papel del Partido Comunista de China en la guerra nacional» (Octubre de 1938), Obras Escogidas, tomo II. *”
― Mao Zedong, quote from Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung
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