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love this sentence by the anonymous fourteenth-century English mystic who wrote The Cloud of Unknowing: ‘It is not what you are nor what you have been that God looks at with his merciful eyes, but what you desire to be.’
Emmanuel Carrère • Yoga: From the bestselling author of THE ADVERSARY
This was the first time he had felt that blissful indifference.
Milan Kundera • The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Only after a year did the accumulated malice (which until then had been vented, for the sake of training, on animals) find its true goal: people.
Milan Kundera • The Unbearable Lightness of Being
characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about.
Milan Kundera • The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Any schoolboy can do experiments in the physics laboratory to test various scientific hypotheses. But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.
Milan Kundera • The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Est-ce que nous ne sommes vraiment plus capables de respecter la nature, la liberté vivante, sans aucun rendement, sans utilité, sans autre objet que de se laisser entrevoir de temps en temps ? La liberté elle-même serait alors anachronique.
Romain Gary • Les racines du ciel (French Edition)
just so long as they aren’t psychos.
Kazuo Ishiguro • Never Let Me Go
For none among us is superman enough to escape kitsch completely. No matter how we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.